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A64074	The remarkable life & death of the Lady Apollina Hall widdow, deceased in the 21th year of her age By William Typpin, Esquire. Imprimatur, Edm Calamy	Tipping, William, 1598-1649.	1647 (1647)	Wing T3567; ESTC R219517	8,443	33

seek for nothing more as many of their lives doe speak then to take out a heaven here on earth crumbling out their daies on glorious vanities and feeding their hearts and eyes with fading frivolous ●ruitlesse contentments Oh that ●hey would but sadly consider ●et a little a very little while and then comes death and then comes judgement and then comes eternity that long day that will never see an evening ●hat deep gulph that hath in ●ruth neither bounds nor bot●om and what a melancholly ●ntrance will they finde into this ●verlasting condition when their ●●te improvidence shall inforce ●hem to cry out in their death●ed lamentation Once were ●ur joyes as full as our desires our heads were crown'd with rose buds our faces shin'd with I tremble to speak it in these reforming daies but now oh now whither away all our glory our delights are perished yea vanished sunk and gone and see their deceitfullnesse they have left us nothing behinde them but our sins as so many serpents to sting us for all eternity oh this is a long and deadly word for all eternity These or the like will one day be their dolefull complaints and if a deep repentance intervene not this will be the issue of all their joy Truly it makes my heart bleed in me to see and consider that in this juncture of time when the land hath been so long in 〈◊〉 mourning garment and after so much bloud and fire and famine and pestilence dreadfull desolation in the severall quar●ers of this Kingdom the daughters of our Sion are no more sensible of these judgements which ●ave broken in upon us then ●he stones in the streets they ●●gge on in their old way they 〈◊〉 the fat and drink the sweet ●elt in pleasures and cloath themselves as gloriously as if ●hey meant to vie with the Sunne ●t noon day when it exalts it ●elf in its greatest brightnesse ●hey walk with their stretcht out ●ecks and wanton eyes and made complexions should the Lord in the naturall composure of their faces have ingraven ●●ch black spots in them as now their fancies adde surely they would have looked on themselves as monsters and have ●hought nature had been a stepmother and dealt unkindly with them but now silly souls because these vain toyes are the imps of their own sick brains and their own hands have fashioned them therefore they hugge the work of their own inventions and the beauty which God vouchsafes them seems despicable in their eyes Surely our age is worse then heathenish in this sinfull liberty for it s reported by a faithfull hand that the very Indians amongst whom the Lord hath lately vouchsafed some dawning of the Gospel do so abhor the naked brests of women and hair hanging loose or cut as mens hair is that they have made some Laws against them Oh that our English Ladies should grow so bold as to practise that which Indians abhor which miserable heathens count ●heir shame Alas alas however their deluded hearts may flatter them for a time into a self com●lacency in this their pleasurable way yet as sure as their souls do live it will be bitternesse in the latter end For tell me tell me ●e shining gallantry how will ●e indure it when ye shall hear that terrible voice scunding in your ears Arise ye dead and come 〈◊〉 judgement when ye shall behold upon your first peeping out of your graves the world … n a light fire round about your ●●ars the elements melting with heat the frame of the heavens dissolved hideous cryings of the creatures on every side when ye shall finde nothing but flames and confusion ready to welcome you into the world again how will your hearts melt your hands quiver your mindes faint your knees fall away like water when this gloomy day appears how will ye then when all your golden opportunities of grace are lost and gone in the sense of your future sufferings even vex your selves for your former abominations These are the eyes which shot forth so many envious amarous lascivious glaunces now they are a terrour to my self these are the ears which have hearkned to so many base scurrilous profane lust provoking songs and now they present nothing but everlasting woe and sorrow to my soul and now when all these things come to passe which way will you turn in the midst of these perplexities whence will ye look for succour will you now addresse your self to the fountain of mercy supplicate grace from Christ why with what confidence and comfort canst thou expect grace from him to whom thou hast been a stranger all thy dayes here is horrour enough to confound thee that he hath a fullnesse of mercy in him but none for thee that he hath healing in his wings but none for thy refreshment he is a gracious intercessor for others but in relation to thy self a judge to designe thee to everlasting torments And what a sad thing is ●t that love it self mercy it self sweetnesse it self the Lambe must condemn thee He that ●ath washed away the sins of thousands in his bloud who have beleeved in him and hath also made many and many tenders of grace to thy soul must now for thy stubborn refusals separate thee for ever by an irreversible sentence from the glory of the Lord and face of the Lamb. Oh think on this think on this whosoever you are whom this counsell may concern lay it seriously to heart betimes whilest your breasts are full of milk and bones are full of marrow before the evil daies come wherein ye shall say I have no pleasure in them Seemeth it a light thing in your eyes that the wrath and indignation of the Lord hath broken forth so furiously against this Land your sex speaks tendernesse and compassion why where is the sounding of your bowels where is your pitty to this distracted Kingdom will ye not cease to provoke the Lord against his Church till ye have improved your pride to her utter desolation This is the time of Jacobs trouble and shall it be your day of triumph Oh let the threatnings of the Lord prevail upon you himself hath spoken it Isa 22. that he will have even the life of those that let out their affections to unseasonable jollity when his judgements call for tears Beleeve his word and tremble I bessech you be content to lose a lust to save a Land if you will not for your own sakes yet for the kingdomes sake forbear Away with your base and lustfull baits those black and infamous patches in your faces which render you odious and scandalous in the world and in every wise mans eye disfigure you and lay it close to your hearts what the Lord hath done for you Hath he not in this common spoil and calamity when he hath swept away thousands I believe far more innocent then your selves graciously provided you places of refuge and given you your lives for a prey and will ye now so unkindly requite him as to turn his grace into wantonnesse abuse his long-suffering and trample on his love What hath the Lord think ye preserved you all along through these bloody times that you should live to dishonour him Or can ye possibly imagin that he hath placed you in the earth as the Leviathan in the sea to take your pastime in it or created you to enjoy a Paradise of pleasures here and when you have fill'd up your generation a heaven full of glory hereafter No no beleeve it the Lord hath no pleasure in your vanities your inside beauty is his delight the Kings daughter was all glorious within a life of lust and pleasure is but the life of a beast it s a life of folly not of faith in a word it s the ●hame of Religion and every good mans scorn God expects ye should up and be doing in your severall vocations and not ●ive like unprofitable members of the earth to waste and consume the good creatures of God certainly it will be your truest glory here and your crown of rejoycing hereafter under this light of the Gospel to lead a gospel life Now if any of this sex to whom I direct this discourse ●hall reply hereto and say I will ●alk in the wayes of my heart and ●ight of my eyes I will rejoyce in my youth and my heart shall chear me in my youth I say no more but this Thou that art filthy be thou filthy still thou that art profane be profane still thou that slightest Gods Ordinances the means of thy salvation neglect them still but take the close hear thy doom know thou assuredly that for all these things God will bring thee to judgement But on the contrary art thou in the number of those that fear the Lord and walkest in his way is the joy of the Lord thy strength and the word of the Lord thy joy is thy affection set on thy treasure and thy treasure set on high Oh then well is thee and happy shalt thou be however it shall fare with this sinfull Nation thou art sure for one yea though the earth should move and the hills be carried into the midst of the sea yet because thy life is hid in Jesus Christ thou art as safe as Noah in his Ark when storms and waves surrounded him thou art above the malice of men the fury of devils the power of corruptions the rock of ages is thy fortresse thy sunne thy shield thy sure repose here thy sweet repose hereafter for in his presence is fullnesse of joy and at his right hand are pleasures for evermore FINIS

THE REMARKABLE LIFE DEATH of the Lady APOLLINA HALL Widdow deceased in the 21th year of her age By William Typpin Esquire PROV 12.11 A vertuous woman is a crown to her H●●band but she that makes ashamed is a rottennesse in hi● bones PROV 31.30 Favour is deceitfull and beauty is vain but a woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised Imprimatur EDM CALAMY LONDON Printed by A. M. for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls Church-yard 1647. THE REMARKABLE LIFE DEATH of the Lady APOLLINA HALL Widdow deceased in the 21th year of her age AS it is a work of charity to measure others by our selves and to look on others faults through the glasse of our own ●●firmities so is it likewise a ●atter of prudence and piety to ●●gulate our lives by the line of ●thers and next to the square 〈◊〉 Gods word to take our light … m and direction from such ●ersons whose lives do hold … th the 〈◊〉 uprightest conversations and whose actions as well as their professions do● speak them holy I know it's 〈◊〉 common complaint in th● world and in truth not without just cause that the generality of people doe idolize examples and study men too much but the fault is not in the action but in the object because they make not a prudent choice for did we carefully make choic● of as the word of God for ou● rule so the most holy and experienced Saints of God for ou● directories in our Christian way Oh how much of heaven should we have in our lives what gracious helps would these be to spiritualize and rectifie our judgements to warm our affections resolve our doubts to unbottome us many times from fancies and superstitious vanities and settle our unstable ●●arts in the way of truth and ●●ace Amongst many sweet ex●●ples and paterns of ho … esse that yet through the ●ercy of God have given ●●rth some luster in these gloo●y daies I have thought good 〈◊〉 present this one to publike ●●ew not to be contemned be●●use of sex for Gods graces ●●e to be honoured wherever we ●●nde them Her remarkable … e and blessed and sweet de … ture out of the same doe ren●●r her a patern of imitation I ●ight have said of admiration 〈◊〉 all posterity I should but ●●ifle in a serious businesse to ●●t forth in this place those outward accommodations wherewith God and nature had a●orn'd her in her person parts and parentage for all these are but as rubbish to true worth and to inscribe such trifles 〈◊〉 any matter of her praise were but to lay her honour in t●● dust but that which is to be commended in her is her goodnesse sweetnesse in her disposition humility in her carriage holinesse in her life chearfullnesse in her christian way stability in her principles which she held from the which when once she had found their footing in the word of God for that was her constant touchstone nothing could make her to decline These with many others are the sweet odours which preserve her as a living monument amongst us and keep in fresh memory her name on earth as I doubt not but the Lord hath honoured her with a crown in heaven In the declaration of this La●●es short life for truly she li●●ed but like the sunne flower ●●ept into the world and then ●●osed up again I shall take my ●●se only from the time she first ●●gan to give up her name to Christ accounting of her till ●●en but in a dead and lost con●●tion for before we are in ●●me measure acquainted with 〈◊〉 wayes of Christ before that ●●y dawn and that day-starre ●ise in our hearts we may be ●●id to be in life but we live ●ot our very being is little better then death and darknesse Her education from her very ●●ildhood was in a religious ●ay but in truth through the ●●ult and frailty of an over-in●●gent Guardian too soft and ●●ee for this indulgency to her ●●clination in her blossome years a caveat to fond Grandmothers did but serve to advance and strengthen corrupt nature in her against her better self and to blow the coal of her corruptions into a greater flame But when it pleased God to call her by his grace and to reveal himself in her oh then her former infirmities had an influence on her spirit for her greater good see how the Lord draws an antidote out of poison and they quicken her indeavours in her gracious way About some three years before her dissolution in the eighteenth year of her age the Lord began to remove the scales of ignorance from her eyes and to give her a more through sense and apprehension of the power of sin and Satan upon her soul and now the high mountain is abased and the stubborn heart ●s layed low and she is become 〈◊〉 lambe in her conversation ●ow she begins to enter into a ●ore sad and serious consideration of her former course Now ●owever God had dispensed the ●omforts of this life to her with ●very free and liberall hand yet ●e cares not for mans day the ●ream of her affections are car●●ed into another channell now ●●l the golden vanities of this ●●fe and what ever the world ●efore presented as precious in ●●r eye she layes them as de●●icable things under her foot ●er thoughts are now transcen●●ent and heavenward and both ●●…e and heart are bound for e●●●ity There is nothing now ●●unds pleasing in her ears but ●hat hath the stamp of everlastingnesse upon it An everlasting Christ as her way an everlasting heaven as her end an everlasting glory as her crown These and the like are the subject of her meditations and take up all her joy She set apart four hours in the day for divine duties these were her souls repast and every night before she laid her to her rest she call'd her soul to a reckoning taking the same in writing what errours or frailties she had fallen into the day past what incursions sin and Satan had made upon her soul wherein God had been dishonoured and her profession scandalized in her Christian walk And here I cannot but commend and admire her care and cautious circumspection in discharge of this duty for I am credibly informed that if at night when she was to sequester her self to this soul examination some extraordinary occurrences had cast her upon a later hour then usuall so that through heavinesse of body and indisposednesse of minde she found her self dispirited and unfitted for that task her practice then was to stirre up quicken and enliven her spirits by such means as she saw most conducible to that end that so she might come before the Lord with life love and chearfullnesse and not present her sacrifice of prayer before his glorious throne with a dull and fluggish soul for she knew well that the exercises of Gods worship how constant soever for time and place yet are never carried on to the true comfort of