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A79898 A Looking-glass for good women to dress themselves by: held forth in the life & death of Mrs. Katherine Clarke, who dyed, Anno Christi, 1675. Late wife of Mr. Samuel Clarke, minister. Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682. 1677 (1677) Wing C4540A; ESTC R223051 22,206 99

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and yet nothing prevailed to quiet and calm my Heart and to bow me to the Obedience of his revealed Will And withal considering that it was God only that could quiet the Heart and set our unruly and carnal Affections into an holy frame and order and That he was a present Help in times of trouble I often and earnestly sought unto the Lord with many Prayers and Tears beseeching him to quiet my Heart and to over power and tame my unruly Affections so as to be willing to submit unto him and to bear his Afflicting Hand patiently and fruitfully and to be ready and willing to submit either in doing or suffering to whatsoever he pleased to impose upon me And to be ready to part with the best outward Comfort I enjoyed whensoever he should please to call for the same And it pleased God seasonably to hear my Prayer to regard my Tears and to grant my Requests by calming and quieting my Heart and Spirit and by giving me much more contentedness to submit to his Holy Will and good Pleasure who is a God of judgment and knows the fittest times and seasons to come in with refreshing comforts and who waits to be gracious unto those that trust in him Yet surely I was not without many Temptations in this Hour of Darkness from that subtile Adversary who always stands at watch to insinuate and frame his Temptations answerable to our Conditions and like a Roaring Lyon walks about continually seeking to devour poor yet pretious Souls Then I called upon the Lord in my distress and he answered me and delivered me Bless the Lord O my Soul and all that is within me Praise his Holy Name For he hath remembred me in my low and troubled estate because his Mercy endureth for ever Having thus had new experience of Gods readiness to hear and help when I called upon him And having found that it is not in vain to seek to and to depend upon God in all our Straits I could not but record these things that so Every one that is Godly may seek unto him in a time wherein he may be found who is a present help in times of trouble and who doth for us abundantly above what we can ask or think The Lord knows that I write these things for no other end but that God may have the Glory and that others especially my Relations may be encouraged to seek God in their Straits and to trust in him at all times Amen After her Decease there was also found in her Cabinet a Paper with this Superscrip My Will and desire is with the leave of my Husband to bestow upon my Children these things as tokens of my Motherly Affections and that I may be remembred by them She began with her Husband and what she gave to him and all the rest were all wrapped up in several Papers and each Name endorsed on the outside to whom it did belong And then concludes all thus But above all my Prayers unto God are that he would especially bestow upon you all needful Saving Graces whereby y●u may be enabled to Glorifie his Great Name in those several places and callings wherein he hath set you Amen Amen She left also Legacies to some Poor Neighbours As also ten shillings to Mr. W. the Minister of the place to buy him a mourning Ring Concluding thus If God shall please to bring me to my Grave in Peace let this be the Text at my Funeral Ephes 2.8 For by Grace ye are saved through Faith This Scripture I was oft put upon to have recourse to in times of Temptations and Desertion In an other little Book she had collected sundry Texts of Scripture which might minister grounds of great Comfort against Satans Temptations whereby he labours by setting before us a black Bill of our Sins and daily Infirmities and our great inabilities to every Good Duty to blot out our Evidences to stagger our Faith and to make us go heavily and drooping in our way to Heaven Isa 1.17.18 Cease to do Evil Learn to do well And then Though your Sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow Though they be red as Crimson they shall be as Wool Isa 43.25 I even I am he that blotteth out thy Transgressions for mine own sake and will not remember thy Sins Ezek. 16.6 When I passed by thee and saw thee polluted in thy Blood I said unto thee when thou wast in thy Blood Live Yea I said unto thee when thou wast in thy Blood Live V. 8. When I passed by thee and looked upon thee behold Thy time was the time of Love And I spread my Skirt over thee and covered thy Nakedness Yea I sware unto thee and entred into a Covenant with thee saith the Lord God and thou becamst mine V. 9. Then washed I thee with Water Yea I throughly washed away thy Blood from thee and anointed thee with Oyl Ezek. 36.26 27. A New Heart will I give you and a New Spirit will I put within you And I will take away the Stony Heart out of your Flesh and I will give you an Heart of Flesh And I will put my Spirit within you and cause you to walk in my Statutes and ye shall keep my Judgments and do them Lam. 3.31 The Lord will not cast off for ever Joel 3.16 The Lord will be the Hope of his People 1. Joh. 1 9. If we confess our Sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our Sins and to cleanse us from all Unrighteousness He that believes shall be saved Rom. 8.33 34. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect It is God that Justifies Who is he that Condemneth 2. Tim. 2.13 If we believe not that is If sometimes we are not able to act Faith yet God is faithful He cannot deny himself Ephe. 1.4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the Foundation of the World V. 5. Having Predestinated us to the Adoption of Children by Jesus Chrisi to himself according to the good pleasure of his Will V. 6. To the Praise of the Glory of his Grace wherein he hath made us accepted in the Beloved v. 7. In whom we have Redemption through his Blood the forgiveness of Sins through the riches of his Grace 2. Thes 5.9 For God hath not appointed us unto Wrath But to obtain Salvation by Jesus Christ our Lord. Joh. 10.28.29.30 I give unto them Eternal Life and they shall never perish neither shall any Man pluck them out of my Hand My Father which gave them me is greater then all and no Man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers Hand I and my Father are one Isa 50.10 Who is among you that searcheth the Lord that obeyeth the voice of his Servant That walketh in darkness and hath no Light Let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God Psa 32.1 2. Blessed is the Man whose iniquity is forgiven Whose Sin is covered Bless●d is the
Man to whom the Lord imputeth not Sin Ephe. 2.8 For by Grace you are saved through Faith and that not of your selves It is the Gift of God Rom. 6.14 Sin shall not have dominion over you For you are not under the Law but under Grace Rom. 8.1 There is therefore now no Condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Psa 73.26 Though our Hearts may fail us and our Flesh may fail us yet the Lord will never fail us Jer. 31.3 For he hath loved us with an everlasting Love Isa 26.3 4. Thou wilt keep him in perfect Peace whose mind is staid on thee because he trusteth in thee Trust in the Lord for ever For in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting Strength Promises of Protection Assistance Comfort and deliverance whereby our Hearts may be upheld in the evil Day Ezek. 9.4 Go through the midst of Jerusalem and set a mark upon the Foreheads of them that sigh and cry for all the abominations that are done in the midst thereof Psal 34.6 This Poor man cried and the Lord heard and saved him out of all his troubles v. 19. Many are the Afflictions of the Righteous But the Lord delivereth them ou● of them all Psal 46 1. God is our refuge and strength A very present help in trouble v. 2. Therefore will not we fear c. Psa 42.11 My Soul why art thou cast down and disquieted within me Hope thou in God for I shall yet Praise him who is the health of my countenance and my God Isa 3.10 Say ye unto the Righteous it shall be well with him Prov. 3.25 26. Be not afraid of sudden Fear neither of the desolation of the wicked when it cometh For the Lord shall be thy Confidence and shall keep thy Foot from being taken Psa 3.8 Salvation belongeth to the Lord Thy Blessing is upon thy People Psa 4.3 Know that the Lord hath set apart him that is godly for himself The Lord will hear when I call unto him v. 8. I will both lay me down in Peace and Sleep For thou Lord only makest me dwell in safety Nahum 1.7 The Lord is good A strong hold in the Day of trouble and he knoweth them that trust in him 2. Tim. 1.12 I know whom I have believed And I am perswaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed to him against that Day For Gen. 17.2 He is God Alsufficient Promises made to Gods People in the most dangerous Times What confidence we should have in God Psa 27.1 2 3. The Lord is my Light and my Salvation whom shall I fear The Lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid When the Wicked even mine Enemies and my Foes came upon me to eat up my Flesh they stumbled and fell Though an Host should encamp against me my Heart shall not fear Though War should rise against me in this will I be confidenr v. 4. One thing have I desired of the Lord that will I seek after That I may dwell in the House of the Lord all the daies of my life v. 5. For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his Pavilion In the secret of his Tabernacle shall he hide me He shall set me up upon a Rock Therefore v. 9. Hide not thy Face from me Put not away thy Servant in Anger Thou hast been my Help Leave me not neither forsake me O God of my Salvation v. 13. I had fainted unless I had believed to see the goodness of the Lord in the Land of the Living v. 14. Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen thy Heart Wait I say on the Lord. Psal 40.4 Blessed is the Man that maketh the Lord his trust and respecteth not the Proud nor such as turn aside to Lyes Psal 32.1 In thee O Lord do I put my trust Let me never be ashamed V 3. For thou art my Rock and my Fortress therefore for thy Name sake lead me and guide me v. 23. O love the Lord all ye Saints For the Lord preserveth the Faithful v. 24. Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your Heart all ye that hope in the Lord. Psa 91.2 I will say of the Lord He is my Refuge and my Fortress My God in him will I trust Psa 94.14 For the Lord will not cast off his People neither will he forsake his Inheritance v. 19. In the multitude of my Thoughts within me thy Comforts delighted my Soul Psa 102.2 Hide not thy Face from me in the Day when I am ln trouble incline thine Ear unto me In the Day when I call answer me speedily Psa 115.11 Ye that fear the Lord trust in the Lord. He is their Help and their Shield Psa 112.7 He shall not be affraid of evil tidings His Heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. Psa 118.5 I called upon the Lord in distress The Lord answered me and set me in a large place v. 6. The Lord is on my side I will not fear what can man do unto me 1. Pet. 4.17 The time is come that Judgment must begin at the House of God And if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God v. 19. Wherefore let them that suffer according to the Will of God commit the keeping of their Souls to him in wel-doing as unto a faithfu Creator ● Thes 1.6 7. It is a Righteous thing with God to recompence tribulation to them that trouble you And to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus Christ shall be revealed from Heaven c. 2. Thes 3.3 The Lord is faithful who shall stablish you and keep you from evil These I have thought fit to t●●nscribe hoping that by Gods blessing they may prove Useful and Comfortable to many others as they were to her But besides she had collected many others whereof to prevent tediousness I shall only give you the Heads As Promises to strengthen our Faith For Deliverance from all evil For assistance in times of trouble For the Resurrection of our Bodies For Eternal Glory with Christ That God will preserve his Children from Afflictions so far as it is good for them That God will qualify and moderate their Afflictions when they do come And proportion them to their Strength That Afflictions are soveraign Medicines to kill Lusts and to cure spiritual Diseases Promises made to such as suffer in a Good Cause for the Truth Promises of Deliverances from the Evil World Of Comfort to such as fall through Infirmity Promises made to such as are Ignorant Comforts against doubts and fears of loosing the Love of God Comforts against forgetfulness of Good things Comforts against fears of falling from God Comforts against dismayedness under many and strong Corruptions Comforts against troubles arising fom the want of the means of Grace either in the whole or in the Power of