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A07358	A patterne for women: setting forth the most Christian life, & most comfortable death of Mrs. Lucy late wife to the worshipfull Roger Thornton Esquire, of Little Wratting in Suffolke Whereunto is annexed a most pithy and perswasive discourse of that most learned & holy Father Ierom, being his last speech before his death, which is able to rouze vp the most drowzy and dead in firme. And finally, the last most heauenly prayer of the sayd Ierom, a singular help for a poare soule, wrestling with the pangs of death, to addresse herselfe towards her saviour. By I.M. Bachelour of Diuinity.	Mayer, John, 1583-1664.	1619 (1619)	STC 17742; ESTC S100842	34,723	168

After these and other graue and comfortable speeches he vttered this heauenly praier following The Prayer of Ierome being now ready to die OHoly Iesus my virtue my resuge my taker vp my deliuerer and my praise in whom I haue hoped in whom I haue belecued and whom I haue loued my cheife sweetnesse my tower of strength and my hope euen from my youth Call me ô the Guide of my life and I will answer thee Stretch foorth the right hand of thy clemencie to the worke of thine owne hands which thou the creature of all things hast made of the mire of the earth and ioyned together with bones and nerues to whom thou dying hast giuen life and mercy Bid me come ô Lord doe not delay it is time that dust returne to the dust and that the Spirit returne to thee the Sauiour who hast sent it hither Open to me the gate of life for thou hast promised mee that thou wouldst receiue it when thou didst hang vpon the crosse for me Come my beloued let me lay hold vpon thee and not let thee go bring me into thy house Thou art my Taker vp my glorie and the lifter vp of mine head my saluation and my blessing Receiue me ô mercifull God according to the multitude of thy mercies Thou dying receiuedst the Theife vpon the Crosse running vnto thee O eternall blessednesse let me possesse thee Inlighte with the light of thine eternall sight mee blinde man crying by the way Iesus thou sonne of Dauid haue mercy vpon me O inuisible lights what ioy can I haue when I sit in darknesse and see not the light of heauen O light without which there is no truth there is no discretion no wisedome no goodnesse inlighten mine eies that I sleepe not in death that my enemie say not I haue preuailed against him My soule is weary of my life I speake in the bitternesse of my soule I am sicke my life is weakned through pouertie my bones are fried as it were in a frying pan And therfore I runne to thee Lord the Phisitian Heale mee O Lord and I shall bee healed saue me ô Lord and I shall be saued and I shall not be confounded because I put my trust in thee But who am I most holy God that I should speake so boldly vnto thee I am a sinner altogether begotten borne and brought vp in sinnes I am a rotten carcase a slinking vessell euen wormes meate Woe is me ô Lord spare mee what victorie is it if fighting with me thou shouldst ouercome mee who am lesse then the stubble before the fire Forgiue all my sinnes lift mee poore Wretch out of the mire O Lord if thou wilt giue me leaue I will say that thou oughtest not to put me away comming vnto thee because thou art my God Thy flesh is of my flesh and thy bones of my bones For for this cause not leauing the right hand of the Father thou hast cleaued to my nature and becamest God and man And why didst thou this so hard and vnthought of thing but that I might come confidently vnto thee as vnto a brother and that thou mightest mercifully communicate vnto me thy diety Wherfore arise helpe mee ô Lord arise and reiect me not finally Euen as the Hart braies after the riuer of water so my soule thirsteth after thee the liuing fountaine that it may drinke waters of ioy out of the fountaine of my Sauiour and neuer thirst againe O Lord when wilt thou haue regard and restore my soule from euill deeds and my da●●ing from the Lyons● If my sinnes were weighed whereby I haue deserued thine anger and my calamitie were put in the ballance it would be heauier then the sande of the sea and if thou stay a little longer I shall finde tribulation and sorrow Come the ioy of my Spirit that I may delight in thee reueale vnto mee thy mercie the ioy of mine heart Let me finde thee my desire Euen as a seruant longs for the end of his worke so I long for thee O LORD Let my request come into thy sight that thy hand may saue me I haue bin a great sinner in my life time and done much euill in thy sight I haue not knowne thee I haue bin vngratefull for thy benefits I haue not praised thee as I ought I haue often cōcealed thy truth when thou didst knocke at the doore of my heart I was slow to let thee in reuerently I haue loued my rotten body which goeth away like a shadow with too much affection I haue defiled my mouth with vaine words my minde hath not bin alwaies in thy testimonie I haue not turned mine eyes from beholding vanitie I haue polluted mine eares with vnprofitable words I haue not stretched out my hands oftentimes to the necessities of my neighbours I haue made hast with my feet to iniquitie What should I say more from the sole of my foote to the crowne of my head there is no whole part in me Surely vnlesse dying vpon the crosse thou hadst holpen mee my soule had dwelt in hell O holy Iesus I am part of so great a price for mee hast thou shed thy pretious blood ô reiect mee not I am the ship that haue wandred ô good Shepheard looke me vp and bring me to thy fold that thou may est be iustified in thy sayings For thou hast promised mee that at what houre soeuer a sinner repenteth he shall be saued I am greeued I know my sins and mine iniquitie are alwaies before me Truly I am not worthy to be called thy Sonne for I haue sinned against heauen and before thee Speake ioy and comfort in mine eare turne away thy face from my sinnes blot out mine iniquities according to thy great mercy Cast mee not away from thy sight neither deale with me according to my sinnes but helpe mee ô God of my saluation and for the honour of thy name deliuer me Deale benignly with me according to thy good will that I may dwell in thy house all the dayes of my life that I may praise thee togither with those that dwell there for euer and euer Arise and make haste ô the most beloued husband of my soule do not consider that it is tawney black through sinne Shew hir thy face vtter thy voice in her eares for thy voice is pleasant and thy face is comely Turne not away from me shun not thy seruant at this houre I waite vpon thee O Lord I beleeue to see the goodnes of the Lord in the land of the liuing Therefore come my beloued let vs goe out togither into the field and see if the vine hath flourished Turne my mourning into ioy incline thine eare vnto mee make haste to deliuer me out of this vale of teares miseries Trinitati in vnitate Gloria

comforting in reforming and in praying was all in effect spoken by her if a register heer of had beene made And I haue made this addition the rather that all the world may know that in what faith and hope and affections and iudgements good Christians amongst vs dye now a dayes in the same faith and affections the most learned and holy seruants of God died twelue hundred yeeres agoe For let who so will look with a single eye into this Treatise and he shall plainly see that Ierom held a particular faith prayed only to God professing great boldnesse for that Christ was his brother renounced all merit of his owne workes and beleeued to passe immediately to be auen being shaken with no feare of purgatory fire with many poynts more which may easily bee gathered But I forget my self I write too long an Epistle before so briefe a worke I conclude therefore and pray the God of comfort to fill you with true heauenly comfort to the end Amen Your Worships in all duty to be commanded in the Lord. I. M. Luk. 2.29 30. Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace according to thy word For mine eyes haue seene thy saluation THese are the words of Simeon an old man that feared God who in all likely-hood by reading the Prophesie of Daniel Chap. 1.9 finding out that about this was the time of the Messiah prayed to the Lord that he might bee so happy as to see him before his death wherunto the Lord condescending promiseth that he should not die before he had seen his Sauiour And accordingly moouing him by the Spirit to goe to the Temple when his Sauiour being now a childe of fourty dayes olde was brought thither with an offering according to the Law he granted him his hearts desire and gaue him a sight of him whom for ioy he taketh into his armes and yeelds himselfe to dye in singing Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart c. In these words are two things Simeons sight and Simeons ioy His sight Mine eyes haue seene thy saluation His ioy Lord now lettest thou thy seruant depart in peace according to to thy Word For the first Mine eyes that is not onely the eye of my minde with which I saw him long agoe but also the eies of my body Thy saluation that is thy Sonne by whom the saluation of the Elect is wrought who for this excellency aboue other sauiours is called Saluation Doct. Hence we may obserue that some obtain so great fauour at the hands of the Lord as to see with their eies whilst they liue in this vale of miserie the Sonne of God and their eternal saluation wrought by him This fauour had Simeon and Anna and many faithfull both men and women in those daies who not onely with the eies of their minde but euen with their bodily eies also saw their saluation And all the faithfull in all ages both before and since the birth of Iesus haue beene made partakers of this fauour with their eies to see their saluation Of Abraham the the Lord saith Ioh. 8.56 Abraham desired to see my day and saw it and reioyced And of the rest S. Paul to the Hebrewes saith Heb. 11.13 They all diea in faith and obtained not the promises but saw them a farre off And since the death of Iesus all the beleeuers haue seene and haue heerein beene more blessed then they which seeing with their bodily eies beleeued According to which the Lord Iesus himselfe teacheth when Thomas would not beleeue till he had seen with his bodily eies Iesus risen againe and felt him with his hands saying O Thomas thou hast seene Ioh. 20.29 and beleeued blessed are they that haue not seene and yet beleeue So that it is a greater fauour not to see with the eyes of the bodie and yet to beleeue then to see with these eies and so to beleeue And of this fauour did this our deere sister partake whilst she liued in this world her eies did see her saluation shee did constantly heleeue in Iesus Christ and only relied vpon him for the obtaining of euerlasting life And whereas some things doe trouble the sight of the eies and some things againe do help and cleere it shee that obtained a more cleere sight by remouing the hinderances and vsing the helps most carefully The things that trouble the sight are sins and the thing that helpeth is the eye-salue of the Spirit that is the annoynting of the Holy Ghost For the Church of Laodicea liuing in sin is reproued as miserable Reu. 3.17 18. poore and blinde and for remedie is counselled to buy eye-salue of the Spirit Euen as the bodily eye saith S. Augustine which is made to behold the light Aug. Mat. Hom. 18. if dust or any offensiue thing rusheth into it it is so troubled as that it is not only not able to behold the light but must be hidden from it as not able to indure the light for that it now becommeth hurtfull to the eye so the eye of the minde by sinne is made vnable to behold the Lords Saluation yea it is rather troubled at it This excellent Saint of God knowing this did alwaies most carefully shunne all sinne keeping a most diligent watch ouer her waies and by the daily humble acknowledgement of her infirmities had her eyes cleered from the dust of sinne And as touching the annoynting this was plentifully diffused vpon her soule there being in her a most fragrant smell of all Christian graces First she was annoynted with a heauenly zeale as Mary the sister of Lazarus Luc. 10.42 who thought that one thing necessary her delight was to sit at the feet of Christ with all diligence to heare him preaching in the ministry of his holy word Neither the length of the way the cold and wet of the winter neither the businesses of the world could hinder her feet from comming to the house of God Vpon the Lords daies vpon Lecture-daies and vpon euerie occasion of preaching she was seene with the forwardest about the Lords Seruice In her priuate familie praiers morning and euening reading of the Scriptures and singing of Psalmes were neuer wanting in manie yeeres Besides that the Sermons were most carefully rehearsed seruants and children duely enstructed and manie heauenly speeches by her continually ministred to the breeding of grace in the hearers By this heauenly exercizing of her selfe then shee had her conuersation in heauen Phil. 3.20 and so could not but see her saluation there laid vp Sicut corpus quod aëris puritate perfruitur c. Euen as the bodie faith Chrysostome which liueth in pure and cleare aire Chrysost Matth. Hom. 2. enioyeth health and a more cleere sight but if in a thicke or smoakie aire it is much annoied hereby So the soule which is exercised in heauenly seeth the things of God more cleerely wheras the smokines of manifold worldly businesses much troubleth the sight Secondly