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enemy_n	david_n	life_n	saul_n	1,175	5	9.4858	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02735	Deaths aduantage little regarded, and The soules solace against sorrow Preached in two funerall sermons at Childwal in Lancashire at the buriall of Mistris Katherin Brettergh the third of Iune. 1601. The one by William Harrison, one of the preachers appointed by her. Maiestie for the countie palatine of Lancaster, the other by William Leygh, Bachelor of Diuinitie, and pastor of Standish. Whereunto is annexed, the Christian life and godly death of the said gentlevvoman.	Harrison, William, d. 1625.; Leigh, William, 1550-1639.	1602 (1602)	STC 12866; ESTC S117329	105,988	243

for he killed himselfe what did Dauid reioyce or lament Though Saul in his life time was alwaies his deadly enemie yet mourned hee and wept for Saul and Ionathan saying Tell it not in Gath nor publish it in the streetes of Askelon least the daughters of the Philistims reioyce and the vncircumcised triumph This did Dauid which was a man after Gods owne heart though you as it should seeme rather delight to solace your selues with the falles and infirmities of Gods children then once to be touched as feeling members of one bodie with an inward sighing and sorrow for the same But now touching the death of this Gentlewoman whereat some of your Romish faction haue bragged as though an oracle had come from heauen to proue you Catholicks and vs Hereticks Blessed be God and our Lord Iesus Christ the Diuell and you are all deceiued and God euen our mightie Iehouah hath you in derision and shall laugh you to skorne who hath not only frustrate your fond expectations but made your follie manifest to all men This Gentlewomans life being more holie and her death more comfortable then possiblie any of yours can be so long as you continue Papists The trueth whereof I haue compendiously set foorth in this present treatise following as will be testified by persons of honester note and condition then any of your generation And thus for this time I end praying God to forgiue you your sins because you know not what you doe and to open your eyes that you may see your errors and come out of Babylon Amen That by some taste of the truth of that which befell the vndoubted child of God Mistris Katherin Brettergh in the time of her sicknes neere before and at the instant of her death the mouth of the sclanderer which was soone opened might be some deale stopped the expectation of the godly in part satisfied and preiudice in all happilie suspended one both an eye and eare-witnesse thereof caused these few lines as an Epitaph to be fixed nigh her Hearse Id est Katherina quia Christi sanguine mundata igneaque te●tationum exploratione purgata Mundis eodemqus modo purgandis omnibus tum quae passa est tum etiam eorundem exitum testatissim cupit TRue it is I strone But 't was against mine enemie Strongly I struggled It was my strongest aduersarie Strongly not in my selfe but in my euer-helper strong Strongly alas weake woman weakely strong Strongly though faintly which was fleshes infirmitie Strongly and doubtfully through my soes lying subtiltie Strangely I grant till strēgth it selfe in weakenes was s●e●● strong And Sauiour mine did in the battailes throng Plainely display his banner-booke in open field VVhich seene mine aduersaries all gan shrinke fall yeeld So Christ the victor searching the spoi●e taking his pray Me found for him tooke to him So I past from you away VVitnes hereof my often'pplied faith's confessions VVitnes my prayers plain●s tearefull eyes hart yearning meditatiōs VVitnes my sweate strong trembling thirst my bi●ning ●ca●e Peace ioy passage all harts that present then with mine did beate But be all silent One for me the truth will tell My witnes now in heauen with whom I crowned dwell And learne by me with God and 's word your childhood to acquaint Then aged finally though hap's at times you shall not saint Si non testantis side Monentis charitate Moueamini An●iphonic●s eidem IT 's not vnlike Christ's dea●e such conflict you endur'de The members must be like the head vve are assur'de 'T vvas not amisse you did so fi●rce hot sirie triall bide To haue pure gold some seauen times is tride It were vnmeete the seruants better then their Lord should finde The Captaine passe the pikes the souldiers stay behinde 'T is meete for vvhom Christ dranke off all that bitter cup They of the same vvith him a little dram should sup And though your life your birth your vertuous education Your holy course in Reading Prayer Meditation Meekenes patience pitie and religious chastitie Both in your maried state and free virginitie Did vvorthilie import you vvere the same You did professe and as did sound your name Yet that your death prou'd cleerer seuen fold You t'he Christ's member seruent souldier and gold Noutheticon LEarne all by this and others more iust Abrahams breede Borne in the Church nurst of her brests begottē of immortal se●d Learne you that stand haue peace feele ioy see light Partake God's spirit tasting his grace and heauenly gift The time may come that you may fall war rise peace seeme strāge You ioy vvith anguish light for deaths shadovv may exchange Satan may buffer Gods spirit driue you to the vvildernes The booke mouth sweetning be to your bellies bitternes Learne ye that in these heauie changing● be God changeth neuer neuer doe his graces die Graces fountaine runneth euer it floweth aboundantly We doe not alwaies thirst seeld called come oft drinke we sparingly Learne you that in these blessed feelings haue no p●●t Nor of the bitter changings feele the smart Your wretched state who liuing are as dead withouten sence Who dead shall euer liue tormented going hence Learne all iudge not before the time happie and bless'd is he VVho of the sillie humbled poore doth iudge aduisedly Edw. Aspinwall Katherina Pura Christo qu●●● purgata Vita Christo praparata Morte Christo dedicata Coelis Christo coni●gata W. F. The holie life and Christian death of Mistris Katherin Brettergh THis Gentlewoman was borne in Cheshyre the daughter of Iohn Bruen of Bruenstapleford Esquire well descended and of an auncient house Her education before her marriage was such as became the profession of the Gospell in godlinesse and puritie of life and Religion and well beseemed the house where she was brought vp The Scriptures she knew from a childe and by reading thereof gained such knowledge that she was able readilie to applie them when occasion was offered as wee may see at the time of her death and that so fitly and effectually that she seemed to haue made them her daily meditation For the things of this world she was moderate and sober and by her Christian life and death she might teach many Gentlewomen how vaine the pleasures and fashions of this world are and how farre vnable to bring that peace to a distressed heart that the embracing of true Religion can She vsed not to gad abroad with wandring Dinah to dancing greenes markets or publike assemblies but rather with Hannah did chuse to tread vpon the dust of the sanctuarie and walke in the waies of Sion yea with Dauid rather to be a doore keeper in the house of God then to haue societie with the wicked or to dwell in the tents and Tabernacles of the vngodlie The Sabbaoth day was alwaies deere and welcome to her what time she would not be without the word preached though many times she went farre for it Her delight was still to

and vncharitable tongues of the Papists abiding in our countrey who since her death haue not ceased to giue it out that she died despairing and by her comfortles end shewed that she professed a cōfortles Religion Wherein they bewray their malice madnes and shew themselues of what generatiō they are euen a people as the Prophet Ieremy saith which bend their tongues like bowes for lyes and as Dauid saith make readie their arrowes to shoote at them which are vpright in heart And lastly when I remembred the censure giuen by our Sauiour Christ of the woman that poured costly ointment 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 she did it to bury him but also commaunded that wheresoeuer the Gospell should bee preached throughout the worlde there also that which she had done should be spoken of for a memoriall of her Euen so seeing this vertuous Gentlewoman hath bin vniustly accused by some popish persons I thought it sit that she should not onely be iustly excused and cleered from their false and slaunderous reports but also that a true historie of her holie life and christian death should be annexed to those learned Sermons which were preached at her Funerall by two godly Preachers and are now published in print that where soeuer they going before as the Gospell preached there also this briefe historie may follow after to be seene and read for a memoriall of her These reasons moued me both to collect and publish this treatise the doing whereof I trust as it will be acceptable to many so can it bee hurtfull to none vnlesse possible it be to the kingdome of darknes If there be any vnsatisfied and yet desire any other reasons I tell them further it is to burie her and the last balme that euer I can powre vpon her head it is my farewell and the last duty which I can performe vnto her and therefore I hope both excusable in me and also profitable to others because many things here spoken of her deserue imitation And this I assure the Reader that howsoeuer I may sometimes misse the for me of words which possibly the Gentlewoman vsed in her speech yet haue I faithfully set downe the substance of the matter and for the most part also faithfully related the words themselues and reported nothing but that which is most true and testified by persons of good and honest report as they are named in the margent out of whose fresh memories the substance of that which I publish was presentlie set downe This I humbly desire thee good Christian Reader to accept I had no other odours wherewith to imbalme her I am but the pen-man the thing it selfe was her owne wrought in her by Gods spirit and therefore not costly to me though more comfortable to me and all that heard it then I can now expresse and I doubt not but it shall yeeld thee also the same comfort and giue thee occasion both to praise God and imitate her wel-doing which the Lord graunt Amen A Post-script to Papists PEace and truth to as many of you as pertaine to God I am moued in conscience to deale with you by this manner of writing because of the false and slanderous reports which I heare some of your faction haue blazed and diuulged abroade concerning the death of Mistresse Katherin Brettergh a Christian Gentlewoman whose life indeed was holy and death most comfortable It is no noueltie or new thing to heare a lye from a Papist but rather a principle of your religion Therefore if you pleade antiquitie as a marke infallible to know your Church by for that point tak 't you you haue it from the Diuell your father by tradition diabolicall holding the same still in these succeeding ages so succinctly that for ought I know you will not leaue it till you be shut foorth of the heauenly Ierusalem and cast into Tophet which is prepared of old for liers and inchanters Yet it pities me to thinke of some of your poore sillie seduced soules how simple they be in Gods causes and yet malicious for the most of my popish neighbors what others be I know not flye but a very low pitch being people altogether void of learning wit and ciuilitie The furthest drift of their religion is to say the Pope is a good man to say it is safest to doe in religion as most doe to thump hard their breasts when they pray to crosse them when they meete a Protestant and to spit out when they name the Diuell to gallop ouer a Pater noster or Ladies Psalter vpon their beades and to say it was a good world when Masse was vp for then all things were cheape finallie some of them will say I beleeue as my father beleeued God baue mercie on his sweete soule and I hope to go to him when I die This is the very length broadth and depth of most part of Popery where I dwell euery one can reach this marke and few can goe beyond it Another opinion of these sottish people is to say If a man dye like a lambe and passe out of the world like a bird in a shell he is certainely saued although neither holines were in his life nor God in his mouth grace in heart nor yet repentāce faith or feeling at his death Such blockish ends a reuerend man doth count fearefull saying such men excepting their fetherbeds and pillowes dye liker beasts then Christians Againe if the violence of any disease stirre vp impatience in a mū at his death straight say our country-Papists there is a iudgement of God seruing either to discouer an hypocrite or plague a wicked man especially if they proteste the truth of Iesus Christ as this Gentlewoman did then they cry and shout see the effect of this religion see the end of these men where as indeede the truth is farre otherwise as a learned writer doth notably determine It seemeth you Papists or who els so euer doe iudge thus are little acquainted with Scripturos nor yet were euer of Salomons minde who speaking of outward things happening to man doth say The same condition is to the iust and to the wicked both one to the pure and polluted Dauid saw the wicked without bands in their death noit●er were they troubled like other men and yet were they ropnobates and the children of Satan But if you Bapists had Dauids spirit which the Diuell would not that you had for Dauids kingdome you would iudge more charitably of Christians deaths especiallie such whose liues were holy notwithstanding any outward accident that might happen at the least you ought rather to mourne and conceale it then to laugh and deride the same for when Saul was dead in mount Gilboa who was a notorious wicked man and his death fearefull indeede