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A33971	Par nobile two treatises, the one concerning the excellent woman, evincing a person fearing the Lord to be the most excellent person, discoursed more privately upon occasion of the death of the Right Honourable the Lady Frances Hobart late of Norwich, from Pro. 31, 29, 30, 31 : the other discovering a fountain of comfort and satisfaction to persons walking with God, yet living and dying without sensible consolations , discovered from Psal. 17, 15 at the funerals of the Right Honourable the Lady Katherine Courten, preached at Blicklin in the county of Norfolk, March 27, 1652 : with the narratives of the holy lives and deaths of those two noble sisters / by J.C.	Collinges, John, 1623-1690.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Excellent woman.; Collinges, John, 1623-1690. Light in darkness.	1669 (1669)	Wing C5329; ESTC R26441	164,919	320

waters far more sharp than brine With perfect grief fit Victimes for this shrine A Song 's desired my poor Muse complied But ere she sang it out she burst and died Grief set the Cliff so high sorrow so rackt Her tender heart-strings that when toucht they crackt She yet is loth to yield she hopes to groan A shatter'd verse or two o're such a stone Ah! for one doleful shrick to rend the Sky Then would she on this grave lye down and die But dying leave some Legacies to give To any who have yet an heart to live A broken heart within which riven frame I●pr●mis In every chink this Noble Lady's Name A face gutt'red with tears a panting breast Item Which when the tongue gives in may sigh the rest And when the fancy fails a bleeding eye Item To weep a more Pathetick Elegy These her neglected Arms she gave to me That I with them might hug this Prodigy Of Vertue which in a fast Gordian knot I 'le tye and with her reliques let them rot Here lyes extinguished a fallen Star Which fixt in th' spangled frame would very far Out-shine those lesser lights whose beaming would Darken the Sun and turn the Moon to blood How had the Pilgrims flockt about her Tomb Had there been ever such a Saint at Rome Add but her merits to that Churches store And they might sin whole Ages on her score Ah Lord what thing is this the world calls man Whom some few inches of a grave can span Though nere so swell'd with honour nere so vast That Kingdoms cannot hold yet found at last Though now more room more earth more worlds they crave Coopt up within the confines of a grave How did this stately Cedar lately ' expan'd Her high and lovely top with which she fann'd The Air and from it gave a lovely shade Refreshing such as the world weary made Alas she 's faln and in a Vault is sunk All we can say 's Here lyes a goodly Trunk Which in a moment by a sudden turn Is ashes made and fitted for an Urn An Urn on which the Mourner only must Grave this Here lyeth Honourable Dust With this great Lady's see another Herse O're which my breathless Muse cann't sing 2 verse 'T is needless why they were in Vertue blood Honour and Piety what e're is good And to be praised both the very same Repeat what 's said change but the christen name 'T is true of both and thus indeed they were Two Noble Sisters A thrice Noble Pa●r A short Account Of the Holy Life and Death Of the Right Honourable The Lady Frances Hobart the Relict of Sir John Hobart late of Blicklin in the County of Norfolk BARONET SAint John heard a voice from Heaven Rev. 14. 13. saying write to which when he replied What shall I write the answer was Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord from henceforth yea saith the Spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them A phrase which implies not any motio● of works but rather the promotion of the person that hath wrought and remuneration for his or her work This reward they have partly in Heaven where Christ rewards his Saints though not for the merit of their works yet according to them Rev. 22. 12. both for nature and degree and they partly have it upon the Rev. 22. 12. Earth whiles the name of the wicked ●otts their memory is blessed and wherever the Gospel is preached what they have done is told in remembrance of them The Widows while they wept for Dorcas shewed the Coats and Garments Acts 9. 39. she had made Solomon commands that the Vertuous Woman should have the fruit of her hands and that her own works should praise her in the Gates This is my present task and the last office I have to perform to that great and noble person whose death hath turned us into an house of mourning I shall begin with her cradle and consider her in the threefold period of her life while a Virgin a Wife and a Widow but I shall lightly pass over the two former knowing nothing but what I gathered from her Ladyships various occasional discourses during the eighteen last years of her life in which I had the honour of a daily converse with her Ladyship as to which I had the advantage of a stricter observation This noble Lady was born in London in the year 1603. being the eldest of eight daughters who all lived to marriageable years with which it pleased God to bless the Right Honourable John late Earl of Bridgewater Vicount Brack●●y and Lord Elsmore Lord President of Wales By his noble Lady the Lady Frances daughter to the Right Honourable Ferdinando Earl of Derby Of this twice noble stock this Excellent Lady was the First-fruit a circumstance possibly not inconsiderable for gaining credit to the following relation of her vertuous life there being something of that in Horace true Fortes creantur fortibus bonis Est in Juvencis est in Equis patrum Virtus nec imbellem feroces Progenerant Aquilae columbam Doctrina sed vim promovet infitam Rectique cultus pectora roborant Such as the Parents such the children be The breed of Horses and Neat beasts we see In Spirit like their damms and Sires prove Fierce Eagles bring not forth a Sable Dove c. It holds not indeed as to infused habits Justus non gignit justum sed gignit hominem said Augustine but as to Moral habits which have their seeds and rudiments in nature there 's much in it Splendid and noble actions are much advantaged by this foundation though education raiseth the building and Grace at last layeth the Corner-stone perfecting what thus is began in nature and improved by instruction and education This Noble Lady had no sooner passed the hands of her Nurse and began to use her tongue but she was in her Fathers house betrusted to the tuition of a French Gentle-woman whom I have often heard her mention with a great deal of honour from her she learned to speak the French tongue before she could distinctly speak English a faculty which she retained to her dying day And having her Organs of speech so early formed to it she so naturally accented it that Natives of that Country would hardly believe her born in England The years of her Nonage were spent in learning things proper for that Age and which might accomplish her for that noble station which she was ere long to take up in the World Now she learned to handle her Lute to sing dance c. things in her maturer Age of which she made little or no use and far less reckoning but they fitted her for the Court which she was to be acquainted with before she could be dismissed into the Ceuntry Now she learned to read to write and cast account nimbly and exactly and to use her Needle and order the affairs of an

for hearing the Word of God at her Ladiships charge But she according to the will of God had with David served her generation and her time now was come when she must fall asleep It must and may be owned for she judged it no blot upon her honour that she was a Non-conformist as to some Modes of Worship in present use as well as to some Doctrines more now in credit than formerly for the latter she was beholden to her Noble Father who as it was said before early prejudiced her against the Arminian principles and for the former she was wont to acknowledge it to those who had the charge of her tender years who sowed those seeds which afterwards brought forth this fruit indeed nothing so prejudiced her against forms of Prayer as her own experience of them For the two or three last years of her life therefore she restrained her self to those exercises of Religion which were performed within her own walls or in some other places not so publick As to which she yet injoyed a great liberty by reason of that honour which persons of all perswasions had for her It was not the will of God she should long survive that liberty which was so precious to her The Lords day next preceding the time when the Act restraining religious meetings took place was if I remember right the last time she went down her stairs I remember while I helped her in going up the stairs from her Chappell to her Chamber that night she told me The Act would do her no prejudice for she should never go down more This as I remember was about the latter end of June or beginning of July 1664. The Dropsie her fatal disease had three or four moneths before seized upon her but death by it made such gradual approaches that till that time she was able without much disturbance to walk up and down That very night as I remember was the first time that she complained of her leggs failing her to that degree yet was her life lengthened out till the latter end of November following Indeed her whole life was a time of Afflictions through the valetudinarious condition of her Noble Husband the loss of Children and her own subjection to distempers through stubborn splenetick obstructions Nor was she for some years before without some prospect of the death by which she should dye though it was a kind of death which she above all others dreaded and would often say concerning it Father if it be possible let that Cup pass from me The time of her last sickness presented us with no great variety of temper in her as to her spiritual condition 〈…〉 kept on her course of Religious Duties in her House and Chamber as formerly Her work was done both as to this and as to another life her House and her Soul was set in order so as she had little to do but to sit still and wait for the salvation of God all the remaining dayes of her appointed time till her great change came I do not remember that during her long sickness she more than twice discovered to me any conflicts in her Spirit though I constantly attended upon her and as constantly inquired upon the frame of her spirit She had sown in tears before and had now nothing to doe but to reap in joy Her death was a long time both by her self and us foreseen in its causes but as to the particular time we were a little surprized when she thought the day of her change in probability at some distance she lost her senses and speech and after two or three dayes quietly fell asleep in the Evening upon the Lords day Nov. 27. 1664. Thus lived thus dyed this twice noble Excellent Lady about the 61 year of her Age. Possibly the Noblest Example of Piety and truest Pattern of Honour Liberality Temperance Humility and Courtesie which it hath pleased God in this last Age to shew upon the stage where he had fixed her A Woman indeed not without her infirmities to assert that were to discharge her of her relation to Humane Nature but as they were of no scandalous magnitude and the products of Natural Temperature not of Vitious Habits so they were so much out-shined by her eminent Graces and Vertues as a curious eye would hardly take notice of them In short None ever lived more desired nor died more universally lamented by all sober persons in that City to which she related She was buried in a Vault belonging to the Family of her Dear and Noble Husband at Blicklin in Norfolk Decemb. 1. 1664. therein paying her deceased Husband a last Obedience who as I have often heard her pleasantly say made it his first request to her upon her Marriage-day PROV 31. V. 29 30 31. Many daughters have done vertuously but thou hast excelled them all Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised Give her of the fruit of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates OVT of the abundance of the heart saith our Saviour the mouth speaketh which argues every man in the best capacity to discourse upon such Subjects which have had the latest and fullest possession of his thoughts you know I suppose what hath made the latest and deepest impression on my thoughts I think I may say upon yours also I mean the severe dispensation of God to us all in taking from us to use Solomon's expression 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A noble vertuous woman An elect Lady to use the Apostles phrase A great mother in our Israel Upon whose separation from us who is there amongst us fearing the Lord that is not crying out Ah? my mother my mother The Chariots of Norwich and the horsemen thereof I have therefore resolved to make an Excellent woman the subject of my discourse upon this occasion you have had her pattern in that noble example whom now the Providence of God hath taken from us you have her description in the text A woman fearing the Lord while I am discoursing the Excellency of the woman in the text both absolutely as considered in her self and comparatively as weighed with others in the ballances of Religion and Reason I shall satisfie my self that as to our deceased friend I shall fulfill the will of God in the close of my text Giving of her the fruits of her hands and causing her own works to praise her in the gates We reade of Solomon 1 Kings 4. 32. that he spake three thousand Proverbs Some of the principal of which are doubtless recorded in this excellent portion of holy writ The notion of Proverbs must not be taken so strictly as we usually take it but in a further latitude of sense as comprehending all figurative speeches especially such as have in them ought of a similitude Nomine He. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 significatur omnis sermo figuratus Mercer of which sort are many of these

sentences some therefore interpret 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 axioms or remarkable sentences specially calculated for the regulating of our conversations These Solomon repeateth as the dictates of his parents to him Prov 1. 8. He bringeth in his father speaking My Son hear the instructions of thy Father and forget not the law of thy Mother Now that he might shew that that general admonition had an influence upon him he in a great part of this sacred peice of holy writ recordeth the instructions of his Father and in the beginning of this Chapter he also recordeth the Law of his Mother So this Chapter begins The words of King Lemuel the prophecy which his Mother taught him Interpreters generally agree that this Lemuel was Solomon there was no King of the Jews named Lemuel Nor need any stumble at the name who wistly considereth that at his birth the Lord named him Gedidiah which not onely argues him to have had another name beside that of Solomon 2 Sam. 12. 25. Apud eos Deus Deo Cui est Deus whether so many as some talk of I know not but the import of that name is much the same with that of this in the text That signified Beloved of God this may either be translated God is with them or to God or who hath God for his God as Critical writers have observed The learned Mercer rejecteth the first Etymology as jejune yet it is owned by the Hebrew Doctors and followed both by Munsterus and Clarius c. Mercer rejecteth it as onely significative of the time when Solomon ruled over Israel while God was yet with them before their Apostacy either of the latter is probable enough signifying either a man set apart for God or a man who had God for his God Which by the way may controul the severe sentence which some Popish Authors give against this excellent person as to his eternal state I conclude then and thatwith the generality of Interpreters that the former part of this Chapter containeth Solomons repetition of some excellent Maxims instilled into him by his mother Bathsheba which she fitteth to his future capacity of being King over Israel Where by the way we may observe the advantage of good principles instilled into children in their youth They may in the heat and vanity of their youth bury these instructions but they often have a resurrection and are afterwards to advantage remembred They are like seed thrown under the clods which upon the next kind showre will discover themselves In this Chapter Bathsheba perswaded her Son Solomon 1. To take heed of two species of Luxury both of them such as persons under his circumstances are exceeding prone to offend by in regard of the great affluence of the world upon them and which have a very ill influence upon persons of that Eminency not only with reference to their bodily life and health but with reference to their publick duty The summe of this first Instruction you have v. 3 4. Give not thy strength unto women nor thy waies unto that which destroyeth Kings It is not for Kings O Lemuel it is not for Kings to drink wine 2. Secondly She exhorteth him to the performance of those positive duties which concerned him in his Regal Capacity The execution of justice and shewing of mercy v. 8 9. Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed for destruction Open thy mouth judge righteously and plead the cause of the poor and needy From the tenth verse to the end is the second general part of the Chapter where you have the character of a vertuous woman whether those also were the words of Bathsheba as some think instructing Solomon her Son in the choice of a wife and by him recorded for our instruction Or whether they Originally be the words of Solomon from the pattern of his excellent Mother describing a desirable woman which is the opinion of others is as unprofitable to dispute as difficult to be determined You have the character of a vertuous woman from the tenth to the nine and twentieth verse In these last verses you have both the conclusion of that discourse and also of this whole Book of divine Aphorisms In it you have 1. The Elogium or commendation of a vertuous woman Many daughters have done vertuously but thou hast excelled them all Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised 2. Secondly An advertisement or admonition to the world to take notice of her and to honour her according to her value Give her of the work of her hands and let her own works praise her in the gates In the former part we have observable 1. A short description of an excellent woman There are many good women many that have done vertuously Who then is this same excellent woman who had made her self high or to ascend above the ●●st as it is in the Hebrew 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What is this beloved above another beloved The text tells you A woman the fear of the Lord we translate it A woman fearing the Lord. I shall anon take further notice of the Hebraism 2. A Second thing which you have remarkable is the order or method which Solomon useth in commending of her which is per modum comparationis comparing her with other women and shewing her Superlative excellency and in the words of the text you have a double comparison The first of persons Many daughters i. e. many women have done vertuously but Thou hast excelled them all or hast ascended or lifted up thy self above all where you have 1. A Concession in those words Many Daughters have done vertuously he grants there were many who in there kind had done worthily and there was an honour due to them 2. A Position asserting the supereminent excellency of this person But thou hast excelled them all Solomon speaks of this woman as David his Father of the sword of Goliah There is none to it There is none to her This is she that is the chiefest of ten thousand 2. Secondly you have a Comparison of adjuncts from which persons may be commended Vertue Favour Beauty and the fear of the Lord. Concerning Vertue or Strength or Riches or Diligence for all these things are comprehended under the term 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 he speaketh nothing at all diminutively he only asserteth an excellency in the fear of the Lord above all these they are as Starrs ordinary Starrs that have their lustre She as the Sun out-shining them all in glory For the other two he speaketh more diminutively of them Favour is deceitful Beauty is vain so not worthy to come into any noble Elogium of any person that indeed is not explicitly spoken but necessarily understood as you may gather from what followeth But saith he A woman fearing the Lord she shall be praised It is a short elliptical speech as much as if he had said but the fear of

betraies your intellectuals as want of judgement in things that differ and your judgement cannot but be erroneous where it is contrary to the judgement of God and of holy men who spake in Scripture as they were inspired by God 2. Let what you have heard bespeak a due value in you both of the fear of the Lord as the best thing● and persons fearing the Lord as the most excellent persons Certainly it is but reasonable that we should judge of persons and things as God judgeth of them as Solomon and David and those great Worthies we find recorded in Scripture have judged David Psal 16. calleth the people of God The excellent of the Earth Solomon tells you here that Favour is deceitful and Beauty is vain but a woman fearing the Lord she shall be praised Though many Daughters have done vertuously yet she hath ascended above them all Oh let us thus iudge Regard not what vain men talk of people fearing God they speak after their Father whose works they do they do but disgorge the prophaneness filth and malice of their own hearts They have hated Christ and no wonder if they hate all those who bear any thing of the Image and superscription Let not the railings of these men let not their hard speeches and bitter censures and more bitter dealings guide your judgement You will one day find that the men whom they thus abuse are no Reprobates Men in power and authority one day will know that these are not these evil doers to whom they should be a terrour Ministers will know that they have abused their texts to turn the drift of them against persons fearing the Lord under the disguise of Schismaticks Fanaticks c. terms which many use in these daies not understanding what they mean If it be some mens worldly interest to do these things yet my Brethren take you heed of treading their steps Let who will revile and curse and blaspheme God hath blessed the persons that fear him and you shall one day see they shall be blessed Behold the Lord cometh saith the Apostle Jude with ten thousand Jude v. 13. of his Saints to execute Judgement upon all and to convince all that are ungodly amongst them of all their ungodly deeds which they have committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him Lastly Are persons fearing the Lord the most excellent persons give them then the fruit of their hands and let their own works praise them in the gates It is Solomons improvement of this notion in the words following my text Certainly there is nothing more reasonable than this is if it were give such persons as these the fruit of your hands it were but according to the manner of men who use to give Presents to Princes Favourites It were but to make friends of your Mammon of unrighteousness that when these things fail you may be received into everlasting habitations But I say no more than give them the fruit of their hands do not defraud abuse them give them that honour that room in the world which they deserve which they labour for and let their own works praise them in the gates Envy them not the praise of their own labours the honour which their own works purchase for them This brings me ●o my last part of my work that I may fulfil my text upon this Noble person for whom we are all mourners But I shall reserve that to a more full and particular discourse LIGHT IN DARKNESS OR A twofold Fountain of Comfort and Satisfaction to those who walking with God yet live and may die unsatisfied as to the sensible manifestations of DIVINE LOVE Discovered In a Discourse first Preached at the Funerals of the Right Honourable the Lady Catharine Courten late Wife to William Courten Esq and since inlarged for more publick profit By John Collinges late Preacher of the Gospel in Norwich Isaiah 50. 20. Who is amongst you that feareth the Lord and obeyeth the voice of his servant that walketh in darkness and seeth no light let him trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon his God LONDON Printed in the year 1669. To His Worthy and Honoured Friend WILLIAM COURTEN Esq Sir WHen I had once resolved to joyn these Sheets long since drawn up and in the hands of some of your noble friends in one Book with those relating to your Noble Aunt I had no great dispute with my self to whom according to the usual custom I should inscribe them You are the only Male Branch of this excellent Root the Heir of her Religion Vertue and Honour you were while she lived next to your dear Father the great object of her Love Care and Pious Sollitude For you it was that she so often so passionately even in her greatest Agonies begg'd our prayers she had you only and your sister to pour out sighs and tears to God for that you might be found constant and walking in the truth You alone can lay a just claim to her picture and these other Papers devoted to a memorial of her You are fittest to undertake the Patronage of her Honourable and Precious Name against such as to justifie others would fasten a Debauchery in Religion upon her Urn after fifteen or sixteen years rest in which since her death it might prescribe for the Faith in which she not only truly died but in so eminent a Profession and such particular Declarations of it as are not ordinary Alas Dear Sir for the sad occasion of this so late an impudent a slander but the judgements of God are a great deep You Sir since her death have been visiting the seat of iniquity the Country of the great Whore which hath made so many drunk and is yet by parcels intoxicating souls with her superstitious and idolatrous abominations you went not out of curiosity but upon a just call and to pay a duty to your Fathers Sepulchre Had your rare Mother lived till you took that Journey she would have cryed out with another kind of Devotion than Horace for his friend Virgil. Sic te cunctipotens Dues Sic pelagi Dominus Ventorumque regat Pater Obstrictis aliis praeter Naves quae tibi creditum Debes finibus Italis Reddas incolumem precor Et serves animae dimidium meae But it pleased God by death seven years before to deliver her from those fears in which your two years absence would have kept her and though she lived not so long as to attend you with her fervent prayers yet Sir I can tell you she had treasured up a large stock of prayers for you and she had begg'd a moving stock which was working for you when she ceased to be and by the infinite goodness of God hearing those prayers you were preserved both in your going and coming in the perils you ran by Land and by Sea Yea and preserved also free from those sensual and superstitious tinctures which too too many bring home with

greater priviledge than this is It is the happiness of Heaven to behold him as he is to see him face to face and is this no ingagement to lay upon you to seek righteousness to tell you that if you get into a state of righteousness you shall be some of them who shall see the face of God another day in glory who shall be heirs of glory and joynt-heirs with the Lord Jesus Christ Are your lusts more worth than Heaven and your carnal pleasures more valuable than the pleasures of beholding God and being satisfied with his likeness 2 Branch Lastly What you have heard may be of use to perswade you that fear the Lord to your duties under the ecclipses of divine love It is the great business of a Christian to study and know and practise what is his duty in every estate You have heard that it is the lot of Gods people sometimes to walk in the dark and see no light what their duty is under such a dispensation I have at large shewed you I beseech you that you would be consciencious in the performance of it 1. Do not murmure or repine against God he doth you no wrong 2. Do not you leave beholding God though it pleaseth not God to look upon you with such a kind aspect as possibly you d●sire Do not give over your waiting upon him in prayer and in all his Ordinances But on the contrary 1. Appear often before him in the righteousness of Christ and plead that with him 2. Walk close with God perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord. 3. Keep your watch take heed of spiritual sleep giving way to temptation or to your own corruptions 4. Believe for that which you do not see hope for him whom you cannot yet behold and with patience wait for the Lord Never yet was a waiting soul ashamed nor a believing soul confounded never yet did an holy soul perish Do this and satisfie your self with holy David That when you awake in the Resurrection of the Just you shall be abundantly satisfied with the Lords likeness and Comfort your selves with these words A Narrative of the holy Life and Death of the Lady Katharine Courten Some useful Observations upon the latter part of the Life and the Righteous Death of the Right Honourable the Lady Katharine Courten one of the younger Daughters of the Right Honourable John late Earl of Bridgewater and late wife of Will. Courten Esq I Shall not undertake the pourtraiture of this excellent Lady from head to foot partly because the circumstances of her birth breeding and education were much the same with her elder Sisters whose Copy I have given more fully so as I should but repeat the same things again partly because indeed till the latter two years of her life she was not at all known to me and partly because that part of her life was it alone wherein she made not her self known to the world It was about the first day of April anno 1650. that her Lap having received an invitation from her noble Sister whom we have formerly in this treatise discoursed of came to spend the retired part of her life with her at Chaplifield-house in Norwich Her time of health with us was about three quarters of a year the other was her dying time I will suppose that none who knew her derived from Adam will think she was not subject to like passions and infirmities with others of the same blood but as these were not such but were consistent enough with eminent degrees of grace so neither were they her pleasure but her burthen And the Apostle tells us that we have an High Heb. 4. 16. Priest who can have compassion upon our infirmities being touched with a feeling of them having been in all points tempted like as we are only without sin I shall only copy out this excellent servant of God so far as the abundant grace of God appeared in her for our consolation and our imitation of her example Six things I observed in her in the daies of her health speaking much of the grace of God bestowed on her 1. The first was her chearful quiet thankful submission to Divine Providence I have not known hardly read of any Job alone excepted whom the Lord was pleased to blow upon with a series of sharper providences than he did upon this eminent Lady he had even made her a mark for all his arrows I have often thought her afflicted condition much parallel to that of Job he had great substance dear relations an healthful body and in a moment lost the comfort of them all This noble Lady was removed from the great plenty of her Fathers house by marriage to William Courten Son and her of Sir William Courten with whom she enjoyed a plenteous estate inferiour to few subjects of England Silver was with her as dust and as the stones of the field He gave her an Husband who was to her the man of her bosom the delight of her eyes and as the breath of her nostrils he blessed them both with a numerous off spring Thus he had made her mountain to stand strong and in this height of her prosperity she began to say I shall never be moved But it was not long before the Lord hid the face of his providence from her and she was troubled First he strips off her branches taking away one child after another until only one Son and one Daughter were left unto her Then he causeth an East-wind to blow upon her estate scattering and breaking the ships that went for treasures to the Indies every year bringing some sad tydings or other of this nature until the Lord had stript her naked and her dearest Husband was not only ruined as to his whole estate but involved in an irrecoverable debt and this noble Lady who lately equalized her greatest friends in an affluence of the good things of this life became into a condition of dependance upon them and through the violence of men is separated from her dearest relation who was now constrained in a remote Land to seek himself a City of Refuge and to secure her self from the snare of an oath which she judged unnatural it was that she retired to her noble Sister at Norwich yet in all this she charged not God foolishly The Lord had given and the Lord had taken and she blessed the Name of the Lord with a meek and quiet spirit humbly kissing the Rod of God that was upon her and holding her peace because it was the Lords doing who she freely acknowledged might do with her and hers what he pleased and she could not say unto him what dost thou Yea not only so but taken up with the admiration of the goodness of God to her seen in the readiness of her noble friends to shew kindness to her and her remaining children in their afflicted state and much more affected with this than with any trouble for Gods severer dispensations to her I