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The character of a trulie vertuous and pious woman as it hath been acted by Mistris Margaret Dungan (vvife to Doctor Arnold Boate) in the constant course of her whole life, which she finished at Paris, 17 Aprilis 1651.
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Boate, Arnold, 1600?-1653?
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vvithin her and upon her lips For a little before she lost her speecâ— after one of her grievoâ—sest and last tossing 〈◊〉 vvhen the sight and senâ— of vvhat she indured aâ— the most evident signes 〈◊〉 the inevitablenes of 〈◊〉 losse had caused me iâ— transport of sorrovv 〈◊〉 throvv myselfe upon 〈◊〉 bed by her side with abâ—â—dance of teares she 〈◊〉 in french the languâ—â—e she had onelie spâ—â—â—e all that night becaâ—se that all the persons in â—â—e room understood it â—â—d most of them understood no other Violà tout le mal that is Loe there all the euill the meaning of vvhich vvords verie intelligible to me by vvhat so often before she had expressed more at large unto me vvas That she vvas sensible or apprehensive of no ill to herselfe in her death but onelie of the evill and grief it did and vvould cause unto me And she spoke this thus shortlie because that speaking begun novv to be somevvhat troublesome aâ—â— difficult unto her Neithâ—â— doe I knovv that 〈◊〉 spoke anie thing else aâ—â—â— it but that she gave 〈◊〉 blessing to her chiâ—â— vvhom she savv stâ—â—d most sadlie at the â—â—â—s foot the poore lamb â—aking the mothers calâ—â—o heart much beyond vâ—â—at is usuall in so younâ—â—n age and gave and as â—â—d vvith svveetest expreâ—â—â—â—s accompanied vvith â—ost svveet and tender lâ—â—â—s an assurance of of a â—â—fect forgivenes of anie displeasure that at anie time might have been caused by the one of us to the other For after that beeing risen for to give the midvvife and the nurce-keeper vvay to change her to another place as she had desired I found vvhen that vvas done and that I came again to her that she had lost her speech though not yet her fences For a messe of broth vvith some medcinall thing in it vvhich Dr Sarrasin and the Midvvife judged proper for her and desireâ— her to take hauing beeâ— refused by her as tireâ— by the greate varietie oâ— cordials and other thingâ— that had been given to hâ—â— since the beginning of tâ—â— fit and finding it noâ— althogether bootlesse 〈◊〉 take anie thing vvhaâ—soeuer assoon as I hâ—â— tendered it unto her aâ—â— prayed her to take it fâ—â— my sake she took it veâ—â— readilie and took-dovâ—â— every drop of it And hauing not long after also lost her sences she continued in that estate the matter of a quarter of an houre longer and hauing been verie quiet and calme this last halfe houre of her life all her paines and pangs having quite left her and her tossings beeing quite ceased vvith them she vvent-out like a candle and gave-up her ghost most quietlie going herselfe to taKe possession of heavenlie blisse but leaving me fâ—â— of most grievous aâ—â— mortall sorrovv to 〈◊〉 as long as my dayes thâ—â— beeing nothing on tâ—â—s earth that can make 〈◊〉 unto me that joy 〈◊〉 comfort vvhich I hâ—â—e lost by loosing her 〈◊〉 rest companie XXII Her greate resolutâ—â—n against death and 〈◊〉 courageous contemtâ—â—f all the terrours of it to the verie last moment as it vvas altogether contrary to her naturall disposition so it proceeded vvhollie from divine grounds and from the gracious assistaunce of Gods blessed spirit quicKning and strengthening her faith in the mercie of God thorough the merits of Christs precious blood and of his bitter death and passion her heart beeing anchored in an unshaken assurance on those infallible promises of our blessed Saviouâ— That vvho-so-ever beleeveâ— in him Ioh. 3.14 5.4.24 6.51 c. shall not perish 〈◊〉 have everlasting life and 〈◊〉 come into condemnation 〈◊〉 passe from death unto life 〈◊〉 live for ever VVhich 〈◊〉 faith she expressed fâ—â—quentlie as in forâ—â—r times so during these 〈◊〉 last moments especiaâ—â—e after that the continuâ—â—ce of her bleeding â—â—â—ger than it had been 〈◊〉 in anie former fit her â—â—â—quent faintings the â—â—rplexitie of the midvâ—â—â—e and of the rest of her friends and people about her their vvhispering together and the sending-for of Mr Drelincourt one of the french Ministers of Charenton had made her comprehend cleerlie that she vvas novv come to the last period of her life And having expressed greate joy and contentment at the sight of Mr Drelincovrt it beeing betvvixt eight and nine of the clock vvhen he came she presentlie composed heâ—selfe for to heare his eâ—hortation and to prâ— vvith him His exhortâ—tion vvas indeed a moâ—â— heavenlie one the sumâ—â— of it beeing that 〈◊〉 should absolutelie reâ—â—gne herselfe into tâ—e hands of God either fâ—r life or for death that â—â—e should cast herselfe inâ—o the armes of Christ Iesâ—â— and in his name and â—â—r his merits sake aske â—f God forgivenes of all â—â—r faults and transgressiâ—â—s vvith a certain assurance of obtaining it that bee in reconciled to God by the blood and mediation of our Saviour death vvas not all to be feared by her because it vvould be no death to her but a passage from this vale of misery to life and joy everlasting vvith many other most excellent expressions fitted to her present condition and for to make her quit this life vvith alacritie and after that follovved the prayer tending to thâ— same purposes durinâ— both vvhich though theâ— vvere of a greate length and that her painâ— and unquietnes vveâ— grovving on her beforâ— they vvere begun she laâ— verie still giuing greaâ— attention to them aâ—â— follovving theÌ„ all aloâ—â— vvith up-lifted hands aâ— eyes as likevvise vvith hâ— voice upon all the mâ—â— pregnaÌ„t passages of theâ—â— And after that they vvâ—â— done she assured me thâ—t her heart too had fullie gone along vvith them from the beginning to the end and that she had found a greate deale of singular comfort and coÌ„solatioÌ„ in them VVherefore also vvhen that Mr. Drelincourt after he had done vvithdrevv himselfe into the next roome for to give vvay to me to Dr Sarrasin to the midvvife and keeper and to the rest of the vvomen to come about her for to give her something and to afford her other necessary accommodations she thinking that he haâ— gone avvay for good anâ— all sent after him for 〈◊〉 pray him not to leave heâ— but to stay vvith her 〈◊〉 the end for to renevâ— unto her from time 〈◊〉 time that spirituall coâ—fort vvhich he had begâ— so effectuallie to ministâ— unto her And he â—â—ving sent her vvord thâ— he had no other inteÌ„tioâ— came presentlie back inâ— the chamber again aâ— from that time he never quit her to the last conforting her from time to time as the intermissions of her faintings and of her anguish and tossings ministred opportunitie vvith short exhortations and vvith ejaculatorie prayers the vvhich vvere still most cordiallie received and follovved by her And in all those paines and anxieties she never spoke an impatieÌ„t vvord but that sometimes she exclaimed Ce jeune coeur ne se veut rendre that is This young heart vvill not yeeld For her heart beeing in its full strength and vigour as not at all abated
by anie sicknes struggled hard vvith death caused by meerâ— emptynes and the lossâ— of blood vvhich thinâ— also she had apprehended she having told you Lordship but the day bâ—fore that as she feare not death at all so thâ— paines vvhich she expâ—cted to indure before 〈◊〉 did somevvhat terrifie her Yet neither the expectation of them vvhen yet absent nor the sence of them vvhen she novv suffered them did in the least manner shake her resolutioÌ„ and vvillingnes to dye nor her affiance in the goodnes and mercie of her Saviour as not neither her tender care of me but having continued constant in them all and the Lord hauing done her the grace to give ner ease and to free her from those disquieting paines before he tooke her avvay she concluded her life vvith a most blessed end to the great edification yea and admiration of all thâ— standers by even such aâ— vvere of a contrary Religion Novv My lord let aâ— the vvorld judge vvith yoâ— Lordship vvhether havinâ— lost such a vvife so good gracious so loving so lovelâ— so accomplished every vvâ— and that in the verie flovv of her age vvhen she vvas but five and tvventy yeares old I can grieve moderately and vvhether my sorrovv can be justlie coÌ„demned though verie excessive and lasting I knovv the Lord hath done me no vvrong in taking her from me vvho vvas his ovvn and in using that right over her vvhich he hath over all his creatures as Souverain Lord and Master vvhereby it is free for him to dispose of them at anie time as he pleaseth and I knovv also that J have given his divine Majestie cause enough to send me this crosse and anie other that I am capable off But thesâ— considerations as they are of force for to make me take thiâ— crosse at his hands vvithouâ— murmuring the vvhich trust to have done exactliâ— not having had the least temptation of calling his justâ— into question for having deâ— thus vvith me so I find thâ— not sufficient for to hinder 〈◊〉 of being sensible to the full â—f the evill that he hath inâ—â—cted on me neither doe I â—â—leeve that vvhen he senâ—â—h anie grievous calamitie to his servants he is offended vvith them for seeing their sorrovv proportionable to the bitternes of vvhat he maketh them suffer For in this verie particular vvhich is novv my case my vvoefull and deplorable case J find that vvhen he thought good in taking from the Prophet Ezechiel Ezech. 24.15 seq the desire of his eyes as he hath done mine from me to forbid him for some mysterious signification all outvvard expressions of mourning even the verie shedding of teares yet he no vvayes forbid him tâ— grieve reallie and invvardlie but rather gave him a command or at the least an expresse permission for doing sâ— by the first vvords of the 1â— verse if they be taken in the right sense as hath been doâ— of S. Hierome and some other of the best Interpreters Fâ— as for that high degree of herâ— call vertue and vvisdome not onelie not beeing veâ— deeplie touched vvith aâ— crosse or affliction though â—ver so bitter and cruell but 〈◊〉 finding even matter of joy 〈◊〉 it and of giving God thanks for it as I admire it in them that possesse it so I confesse to be verie farre from it and to see little ground of hoping ever to attaine to it especiallie in this particular vvhich hath lighted upon the tenderest and least armed part of my soule And my case is the more to be pittyed because that having lost in my dearest Consort that vvhich J most loued and vvhere-in I most joyed in this vvorld and thereby my life beeing become burdensom and hatefull to me yet there lyeth upon me a cruell necessitie not onelie of not abandonning or vvilfullie neglecting iâ— vvhich I vvould not do hovv-ever because absolutelie forbidden by him vvhosâ— holie vvill and commandemeÌ„t must be the rule of all oâ— actions but even of desirinâ— and striving vvith all possibâ—â— care to uphold and to proloâ—â— it for to preserve myselfe fâ— that deare pledge of our mâ—tuall love vvhich she hath lâ— me both because mine ovvâ— affection agreable to the dictâ—tes of God and Nature leade me stronglie there-unto and because that that blesse soule hath in her latter dayes even to the last moments of her life made it so often her most serious request to me and her onelie request the vvhich not to seek to fulfill to the utmost as farre as anie vvayes lyeth in my povver though nothing else obliged me to it I vvould accouÌ„t a crime of the next nature to sacriledge So as J must resolve to live many yeares yet if God so see it fitting yea and vvish and indeavour to doe so though all the svveetnes of my life be taken from me anâ— that I see nothing but thicâ— clouds of dismall draknes beforâ— me vvhich make death untâ— me as to myselfe infiniteliâ— preferable before life Foâ— even the memorie of her vertues as on the one side it ministreth some kind of contentmâ—â— and comfort to me especiallâ— vvhen I consider the blesse revvard there-off vvhich shâ— novv reapeth in heaveÌ„ vvherin the presence of God she in joyeth the fulnes of joy all teâ—res beeing vviped-off from hâ—â— eyes so on the other side it doâ— mainlie aggravate my sorrovv because that the greater they vvere and the rest of her most desireable and lovelie qualities the greater is my losse in beeing deprived of her But be her dearest Jdea matter of comfort to me or matter of sorrovv it shall ever and incessantlie be present to my soule and therein to the end of my dayes take-up that vvhole roome vvhich a christian vvithout offence to his Creatour and Saviour and vvith a due sub-ordination to that love vvhich is ovving to him in the first place caâ— lavvfullie afford to anie thinâ— created just in the same manner as she did possesse it duriâ—â— that time that J vvas blessâ— vvith that greate happynâ—â— of injoying her most amiaâ— companie I should nevâ— have done My lord if 〈◊〉 vvould take that scope 〈◊〉 dvvelling on this theamâ— vvhich my affection and grâ—â—f doth prompt unto me 〈◊〉 feare of importuning yâ—â—r Lordship constraineth mâ—â—â— breake off and so vvith â—y most heartie thanks for â—ll those friendlie and pious paines vvhich ever since this fatall blovv you have taken and doe still take daylie in endeavouring to heale this deep and incurable vvound and to minister all spirituall comfort to me I reamaine Your Lordships most obliged and humble but desolate and disconsolate servant ARNOLD BOATE Paris this 24. of May 1651. D. O. M. S. LECTISSIMAE FOE MINAE MARGARITAE DVNGAN ANIMI PIETATE ET PROBITATE AMORE AC FIDE IN DEVâ— PVRIORIS RELIGIONIS ZELO CHARITATE IN PROXIMOâ— PHILOSTORGIA IN MAâ—â—TVM LIBEROS PARENTEâ— MODESTIA CASTITATâ— BENIGNITATE LIBERâ—LITATE COMITATâ— EXIMIE ORNATAE ETIAM IVSTITIAE 〈◊〉 VERITATIS AMORâ— PRVDENTIA GENâ— ROSITATE RELIQVIS VIRTVTIBâ—â— SVPRA SEXVM ET ANNâ—â— PRAEFVLGENTI INDOLIS QVOQVE ET â—GENII FOELICITAâ— FORMAE PRAESTANTâ—A ET VENVSTATE ORIS-QVE DECORE ET GRATIA MORVM SINGVLARI SVAVITATE ET ELEGANTIA VNICE CONSPICVAE VXORI TOT NOMINIBVS SIBI CHARISSIMAE MOESTISSIMVS MARITVS ARNOLDVS BOOTIVS IN IPSO IVVENTAE FLORE CVM TANTVM 25. AETATIS ANNVM AGERET SIBI EREPTAM 17. APRILIS 1651. IN CONSOLABILITER LVGENS POSVIT HOC MONVMENTVM AMORIS EXIMII ET INDIVIDVI ATQVE AD SVPREMAM DIEM EODEM TENORE DVRATVRI Lectissimam Matronam sibi châ—rissimam Margaritam Dungâ—nam D. Arnoldi Bootij sibi etiaâ— amicissimi Coniugem verè fleâ— deflebat sibi morte ademtam effâ— ex tempore carmine Th. Sinsersiâ— Candidae Casae apud Scotos Episâ—â— pus indignissimus VERE Debemus morti nos nostraque Vâ—â— Ignarus causae dixerat ille nimis Quod saepe expertus iam sentio dum mibi chaâ— Dunganam ab nimiùm mors violenta rapit Mors violenta rapit Dunganam in flore iuveni Prae cunctis alijs quae mihi chara fuit Sed mihi solamen quod Vati non fuit illi est Spes quod per Christum vita redibit ei Sic est peccatum morti nos subjicit omnes Christus at ex ipsa morte redemtor erit Sic tibi sic certò fiet Dungana beata In Christo moriens dum tibi vera fides Vera viva fides quae vitaÌ„ expressa per omâ— Morte etiam in media te comitata fuit Hanc quoque tu in menteÌ„ revoca charissime 〈◊〉 Quae fuit erepta in conjuge viva fides Ereptae quae tanta premit ne â—eopprimatorbuâ— Moestitia In viva coniuge viva fides Vitam animae in coelo post mortem praestat eanâ— Corporeae parti reddet illa suae