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duty_n	lord_n	pray_v	prayer_n	4,629	5	6.6633	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02734	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.	Harrison, William, d. 1625.	1634 (1634)	STC 12865; ESTC S117327	20,842	26

wretched a forsaken woman and such like pitifull complaints against her selfe with teares continually trickling from her eyes She complained of grieuous thirst such as all the water in the sea could not quench and yet when drinke was giuen her sometimes refused it sometimes tooke a very little of it sw●at burst out vpon her exceedingly and sometime her body burned extreamely So it seemed the sorrowes of death hemm'd her in and the griefes of hell laid hold vpon her Sometimes she was very dull in prayer and once when shee should haue said Leade vs not into tentation shee made a stop saying I may not pray I may not pray being interrupted as she said by Satan and so shewed much discomfort howbeit she was not ●●fe till ●●e could both pray and make confession of her faith with speciall application to her selfe Besides these ●●ry darts of Satan she was once or twice troubled with vaine speeches as of her childe the killing of her husbands cattell that shee thought shee saw a ●●re by her c. But euery one saw that these things proceeded of weaknesse emptinesse of her head and want of sleepe which her disease would not affoord her These ●its though they were for the time grieuous to her selfe and discomfortable to her friends yet were they neither long nor continuall but in the very middest of them would shee oftentim●● giue testimony of her faith striuing and fighting against her tentations Many times when the ●landers by iudged her afflictions at the sharpest would shee call vpon God lifting vp her eyes and hands to heauen and desire him to giue her strength against her tentations Many times with a cheerefull countenance she would desire those that were by not to faint or to giue her ouer but constantly to pray and helpe her against the tempter Once in the midd'st of her tentation being demanded by Master William Fox whether she did beleeue the promises of God or no and whether she could pray she answered O that I could I would willingly but hee will not let me Lord I beleeue helpe my vnbeleefe which she pronounced with a still voyce And when he replied that if she had a desire to pray and beleeue she did pray and beleeue and that so effectually that hell gates should not ouercome her according to that of the Apostle God accepteth it according to that a man hath not according to that a man hath not she was much comforted thereby Once after a great conflict with Satan she said Satan reason not with me I am but a weake woman if thou haue any thing to say say it to my Christ he is my advocate my strength and my redeemer and he shall pleade for me Sometimes when she was afflicted with the accusation of her sinnes and want of feeling Gods mercy she would with many a pitifull sob and much weeping pray to the Lord Iesus Christ to helpe and comfort her a poore wofull distressed woman and requested others to pray for her And when shee was mooued to make confession of her faith she would doe it oftentimes saying the Apostles Creed and concluding the same with words of application to her selfe I beleeue the remission of my sinnes the resurrection of my body and eternall life to me Amen And hauing done shee would pray God to confirme her in that ●aith euer concluding with the Lords prayer as deuoutly and reuerently as any that were present A Christian friend who by his dayly attendance on her discharged the duty of a faithfull Christian standing by told her that no tentation had be fallen her but that which appertained to the childe of God and that God is faithfull and true and had promised to giue an issue with the tentation whereas she expressed great comfort Master Edward Aspinwall a faithfull professour of the truth and a true Israeli●e was much with her in the time of her sicknesse and ministred much heauenly instruction vnto her and comforted her at all times with apt places of Scripture meeting with her temptations and so put the sword of the spirit into her hand He propounded to her the most plentifull comforts of God vnto his Church in the 40 41 42 and 43. Chapters of Isaiah vttered in such speeches and phrases a● might most fitly answere her discomforts Also he directed her to consider the Passion and Prayer of our Sauiour Christ for all his Iohn 17. Matth. 26. Luke 22. 23. But especiall did hee often i●culcate that sweet inuitation of our Sauiour Come vnto me all you that trauell and be heauy laden I will ●ase you But the difficulty she had sometimes to apply these generals vnto her owne soule in particular made the ease more full of anguish to her felfe and fearefull and lamentable to the standers by Albeit shee acknowledged Gods Maiesty mercy faithfulnesse and truth yet still complained she of her owne weaknesse and vnworthinesse and could hardly appropriate each thing to her selfe To helpe her somewhat herein for properly otherwise it is the peculiar worke of the holy Spirit of God to perswade the heart and soule of her particular interest in these generall promises she was told that the Almighty who was mercifull as she had proued and faithfull as she confessed intended all these mercies to as many as hee did call and make promise to And that hee called her shee must needes confesse both because that then shee not onely her selfe read but hard others reade those blessed words of God vnto her and also for that in former times she had been touched with the loue of God and that his truth and had well profited in the detestation of sinne and imitation of her Sauiour in a holy life And for the proofe thereof shee was wished to remember in former times her Baptisme her frequenting of Sermons and often receiuing the most comfortable repast of the holy Communion her dayly and almost continuall exercise of reading meditating and praying c. Also hee assured her that neither the present agony she was in nor the speeches th●n in that distresse tending to the signification of despaire extorted from her were any iust causes why either she or any that heard her should iudge fearefully of her because all might see the fault was not in her will as appeared by her prayers confessions plaints sighs teares and grones to God for mercie and full assurance in the blood of Christ but in her iudgement not able at that time to discerne the wayes of the Almighty And therein he told her she was made conformable not onely to many the holy Saints of God Iob Ieremy Dauid and others more but also to her head our Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus of whom wee reade that some have cursed the day of their birth and called for their end and darknesse to couer them They haue beene as men without hope and swallowed vp in despaire They haue cried how the wrath of God hath torne