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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96727	The vertuous wife: or, the holy life of Mrs. Elizabth Walker, late wife of A. Walker, D.D. sometime Rector of Fyfield in Essex Giving a modest and short account of her exemplary piety and charity. Published for the glory of God, and provoking others to the like graces and vertues. With some useful papers and letters writ by her on several occasions.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Walker, Elizabeth, 1623-1690.	1694 (1694)	Wing W311A; ESTC R229717	136,489	315

other Blessed be my gracious God for his great Kindness to me in them both After Three Years continuance in that Family upon the Death of Dr. Read my Lord presented my Dear to Fyfield in Essex a competent good Living and Subsistence blessed be God for it Good Lord crown his Ministry there with the Success of the Conversion and Bringing in their Souls to the Obedience and Knowledge of Jesus Christ Give him abundance of the Graces of thy Holy Spirit and store his Heart with the Treasuries of thy heavenly Truths and continue my Dear Husband a faithfull painfull able Labourer in thy Vineyard If what I have thus far touch'd may savour of any Vanity the modesty of what I have past over may excuse the Errour at least to them who may see the Original Manuscript Now to return to her of whom I write she proceeds I was Born at London in Bucklersbury on Thursday the 12th of July in the Year of our Lord 1623 and Baptized the 20th Day of the same Month. The Lord vouchsafing me a reception into the visible Church of Jesus Christ when he most justly might have suffered no Eye to pity me but have cast me out to the loathing of my Person in my original Defilement and Stains of my sinfull Nature But to my first admittance good Lord enable me to ascend that being a Member of thy Church militant here on Earth I may attain to be one of thy Church triumphant in Heaven My Dear Father was Mr. John Sadler a very Eminent Citizen and of a most generous loving and charitable Disposition and a most tender Father to me and a kind Father-in-Law to my Husband He was born at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire where his Ancestors lived My Grandfather had a good Estate in and about the Town He was of a free and noble Spirit which somewhat out-reach'd his Estate but not given to any Debauchery I ever heard of My Father's Mother was a very wise pious and a good Woman and lived and died a good Christian My Father had no Brother but three Sisters who were all eminently Wise and good Women especially his youngest Sister who married my Father's Partner in Trade a religious good Man In process of time my Father was desired to change his single estate accordingly a Match was provided for him but he by God's Providence approved not of it His Father then provided him good Clothes good Horse and Money in his Purse and sent him to make his Addresses to a Gentlewoman in that Country But he considering well how difficult a married Condition was like to prove his Father having reduced his Estate from about 400 l. a Year to 80. His own Prudence but especially God's good Providence over-ruling his mind instead of going a Wooing he join'd himself to the Carrier and came to London where he had never been before and sold his Horse in Smithfield and having no Acquaintance in London to recommend him or assist him he went from Street to Street and House to House asking if they wanted an Apprentice and though he met with many discouraging Scorns and a thousand denials he went on till he light on Mr. Brokes bank a Grocer in Bucklersbury who though he long denied him for want of Sureties for his Fidelity and because the Money he had but Ten Pounds was so disproportionable to what he used to receive with Apprentices yet upon his discreet account he gave of himself and the Motives which put him upon that Course and promise to compensate with diligent and faithfull Service what ever else was short of his Expectation he ventured to receive him upon Trial in which he so well approved himself that he accepted him into his Service to which he bound him for Eight Years to which he willingly submitted though he was then full Twenty-one Years old and there he served a faithfull and laborious Apprenticeship but much liked of his Master and Mistress And after served him Five Years Journey-man they not being willing to part with him In which time he had his Master's leave to Trade for himself in Drugs and Tabacco by which he left Grocery and was by Trade a Druggist in London And by that Profession God bless'd my dear Father with a very plentifull and good Estate with which God gave him a bountifull Mind and liberal Heart to doe much good to his Relations and others My Dear Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Sadler was the Daughter of Mr. Dackum sometimes Minister of Portsmouth Also my Grandmother Dackum was a very wise and prudent Woman In my Infancy I was very sickly and of a weakly Constitution Blessed be God for the Love and Care of Parents and Friends in my Childhood Estate She was her Parents first Born after Five Years Marriage and despair of having Children which rendred them exceeding tender of her and yet was she well nigh starved at Nurse at Lusam in Kent For though her Parents sent so bountifully besides the Nurses Wages as might near maintain the Family yet have they found the Meat they sent ready to stink for want of dressing In my fuller Age I was of a pensive Nature God saw it good that I should bear the yoak in my Youth but I did not consider the hand that put it on When I was Young the Lord was pleased to deliver me from many Casualties After naming them she always concludes with Praises Blessed be his preventing Mercy Blessed be God that preserved me in that danger And such like If St. Augustin's confessing of his robbing an Orchard be so much approved why may not I touch so small a thing as I meet with here which shews the tenderness of her Spirit When I was a Child my Mother would send me where she less trusted my Sisters In what I might fail I cannot call to mind but I remember she sent me where she kept her Apples they suited my childish Appetite I took one I could not keep it but thought I had stole it I went back unlock'd the Door but with some regret laid down the Apple Blessed be restraining Grace But I must pass over a great many things for brevity which might be usefull unto others and are very pleasant to my self in reading for the savory sense of pious Gratitude which all along breaths in them yet I will not hide the greatest fault I ever knew her guilty of in my own observation or find her charge her self with either in her Book or Diary Having written many things which I pass by and last concerning the burning of her Father's House she thus proceeds About half a year after the Fire which was when she was about Thirteen or Fourteen years old my Father had a great fit of sickness which held him a quarter of a year and in great danger of Death In which time of his sickness I poor wretched Creature through a sudden surprise and provocation spoke a wicked word to a superior of which my Father was informed and most

Affections that should continue Mutual Love Good Lord let that dear Chid she hath left behind her cement and joyn our Hearts in joynt Thankfulness unto thee and unite us one to another Lord give them thy choice Favours in Jesus Christ pardon of Sin with the Graces of thy Holy Spirit and order and dispose for the best whatever may concern them and theirs as to a happy tendency to their well-being in this World and attaining of thy self in endless Glory I beseech thee be very gracious unto him whom thou hadst united so nearly to her in a sweet Conjugal Relation Lord I have sinned and he also suffered Good Lord let all Grace abound to him in all concerns in this Life and for a better and let her gain be his great Advantage joyning his Heart more closely to thy self Good Lord bless that single Posterity of his and ours left of her who was his dear Wife and our dearly Beloved Child I beseech thee be his God in Covenant with him and Lord give him the Efficacy of his Baptism that he may be thine by Grace and Adoption I beseech thee take full and early Possession of his Heart Good Lord keep out the Vanities and Follies of Childhood and Youth that while he is Young he may be a Beloved Disciple of Jesus Christ If thou seest it good to continue him in this Life I beseech thee grant that he may in his dear Mothers room Honour God in this World with an exemplary holy Life a choice Instrument of thy Glory Good Lord charge thy Providence with him in the whole course of his Life and make up all Relations to him in thy self Graciously support him in and through this World Good Lord preserve him from the Soul-ruining Evils of it and when thou wilt take him hence I beseech thee receive him to thy self in thy Everlasting Kingdom in the full Fruition of God in Glory Lord though thou was pleased to clip off so great a piece of the Comfort of my Life in this World denying my Vehement Desires and Requests with the many Prayers of thy People and our Christian Friends for the longer stay of our Dear Child with us in this World yet thou art not the less a God hearing Prayer but hast heard and granted to an higher End not here on Earth with us but in Heaven with thee received in the Arms of Everlasting Mercies to which Blessed Estate I beseech thee bring me and those Relatives very dear to me Good Lord sanctifie to us this Chastening Hand and though thou cuttest off the Streams my Comforts of this Life let not my Soul be as a parched Heath that receives no good but draw me to thy self the Fountain of durable Mercies give me those Living Waters from the Wells of thy Salvation the Light of thy Countenance with thy reconciled Face and Favour those Rivers that make glad the City of God Good Lord vouchsafe me the sweet refreshing gales and incomes of thy Spirit and with thy Grace conduct me off these ruff Seas of Sins and Sorrows to my desired Haven and Port in those Eternal Mansions of Glory where all in thee shall meet with full Enjoyments of God and one another with sweet acclamations of Thankfulness and Praises to thee our God for Ever for Ever Amen Amen Amen I have transcribed this long Paragraph without altering or changing the order of a Word if some may account it tedious who either have not been exercised with such Tryals or have other shorter and cheaper ways to relieve themselves against them let them use their own Methods without censuring or despising hers This was her Heart's Ease when she was overwhelmed pouring out her Complaints to God in secret was her best Anodine but I hope it will need no Apology with most and if it doth with any I 'll not run the risque of losing my Labour by attempting it where the Success is so doubtfull and unpromising I shall venture to enlarge this Section a little farther for three Reasons First To shew the ardour of her Zeal for the Spiritual good of this Child so exceeding dear to her which may be an Instructive Example to some Mothers or Grand-mothers to stir up the like towards their Descendants as nearly Related to them as this Child to her Secondly Because I foresee I shall not in the Body of this Book have much farther occasion to trouble the Reader with any long transcripts out of her Writings what remains being designed for the Appendix which will be entirely her own Lastly To imprint upon the Child due Sentiments of Gratitude to God and her I meet with many Expressions of most Pathetick Tenderness towards this dear Child who now next to my self was the Center in which all the lines of her strong Affections terminated July 14. 1679. Our dear sweet Child went to Coggshall to his Father's House the Lord preserve him from all Evil and Bless him and comfortably restore him to us again About a quarter of a Year after he returned well to us again Blessed be God for it We went four Miles from Home to visit a Friend our dear Child was preserved in an apparent Danger The hinder Wheel of the Coach was very like to have borne him down and gone over him as he was going into the Coach the Horses being disturbed by a strange Horse went away but through God's preventing Goodness I had a quick apprehension of the danger I suddenly pulled him away Blessed be our good God for this Deliverance of our dear Child he had no harm the Wheel durtied his Hat and Coat good Lord help me to live thy Praises who art the God of our Mercies Some may say these are small Matters but I say they are no small Evidences of a very thankfull sense of God's Mercies and will leave them inexcusable who are not thankfull for greater In the Year 1682. God was pleased to put me in fear of the speedy dissolution of our dearly beloved Grand-child He was in a languishing consumptive condition with other symptoms of the Disease His Breath was very short had lost his Appetite he looked very Pale was very Lean which imprest on my Thoughts that God would take him from me To his Righteous Will I laboured to submit but God was pleased to reverse the Sentence with a Blessing on means used the Prescriptions of Dr. H. whom we sent for from London to him and with my own great Care of him he recovered Strength to God's Blessing I ascribe the Praise who did not cast out my Petition Good Lord let this pledge of thy compassionating Mercy to me strengthen my Faith in the grant of my more Earnest Request that I may assure my self agreeable to thy Will of his Sanctification I beseech thee season his tender Mind with the savoury Knowledge of thy Blessed self Lord I do not ask of thee the Excesses and great things of this World not Earth but Heaven thy Blessed self I beseech thee put

justly very angry with me I being exceedingly afraid and ashamed to confess what or to whom I had spoke dreading my Father's displeasure denyed it Good Lord pardon this Transgression with the aggravations of it O Lord I thank thee for thy patience forbearance and long-sufferance extended to me Thou mightest most justly have stopt my corrupt breath and allowed me neither space nor time of Repentance I beseech thee with this abhorr'd provocation forgive all my relative Sins Good Lord pardon my Sins of Childhood Youth riper Age single estate married condition wheresoever whensoever against whomsoever committed that they may not shame me in this world nor confound me before thee when I shall appear at thy Tribunal The abhorrency she had of this fault was so great that I firmly believe she never knowingly spake an untruth after to her dying day So gracious faithfull and able is our good God to bring Good out of Evil and by setting home the smart of one Sin to prevent the committing of the like for ever after After many passages of God's goodness and her Father 's indulgent kindness to her which I omit I meet with this evidence of her Father's confidence in her Prudence and Integrity That keeping a petty Cash for him of an Hundred Pounds or more he would not so much as read over the particulars charg'd as disbursed for her self but would say 'Pray thee take at any time what thou needest By which freedom I bless God I was not made lavish but more sparing Lord I bless thee for the indulgent Care and Love of a Parent How much more wilt thou give good things to them that ask thee and no good thing wilt thou withhold from them that walk uprightly My Dear Father was very tender of me and in time of the Civil Wars sent me to Ipswich for my safety where I stay'd a Year and a Quarter in which time a Gentleman of a good Estate in Land and a Merchant by Profession had a great Kindness for me one whom in the best of my thoughts I did then approve but in the extension of God's goodness to me in preventing my future disappointment as to things of this Life by a strange over-ruling Providence my Father slighted that offer two or three Years after the Gentleman decay'd in his Estate by great Losses at Sea About a Year after my return from Ipswich I went into Warwickshire to Stratford in both which places I acknowledge I did not improve that vacancy as I might to better Advantages but squander'd it away vainly and in idle Visits not providing for Eternity with my time Lord pardon my neglects Whilst here a Gentleman of a very considerable Estate was very importunate with me for my liking but though his Estate was a great Temptation to me I could not fancy his Person God's goodness reserving for me my best Choice Having thus run over with what brevity I could what is but Prefatory to my main design and for that end been forced to omit many things well-worthy to have been taken notice of I shall make nearer approaches to what I chiefly propounded to my self which is to represent though in too faint Colours the amiable Beauty of that resplendant Holiness and signal Chatity with which the God of all Grace to whom be all the Glory vouchsafed to adorn this blessed Soul SECT II. How she was first awakened to a deep sense of Religion by Temptation AND because great and weighty Fabricks require deep and strong Foundations that they may stand firm and last that God whose work is perfect thought good to use that method towards her He suffered her weary Soul to be dug deep and long with sore and great Temptations And as 't is usually said a Storm makes a Mariner a Battle a Soldier and Temptation makes a Christian She was certainly an excellent Christian and to render her such she was long buffeted with horrid satanical Suggestions and blasphemous Temptations which not only made her go mourning all the day long but many Months and Years and not only those fiery and envenomed Darts drank up her Spirits but brought her Life to the gates of the Grave and her distressed Soul to the gates of Hell I shall for the comfort and support of others who may fall into the like Distress give the account of it as set down by her own Pen which may at least relieve them against one difficulty which oppressed her very heavily that is she thought her case to be singular and that never any had been in the like condition and one of the first glimpses of comfort which shone into her dark Soul was from her good Aunt 's acquainting her that she had had experience of the like Tryals When I had been at home about half a Year I grew Melancholy occasioned by some discontent which God was pleased to cure with a smart Corrosive through suffering Satan to take advantage of that humour which affliction swallowed up all my other troubles I going to Prayer according to my usual custom before I kneeled down by an outward action of my Hand which was in it self very innocent and at that time not irreverent farther than the Devil made it so by casting a blasphemous suggestion into my mind which looked very hideously upon me But notwithstanding I pray'd without farther molestation at that time I cannot remember what notice I took of the Temptation in my Prayer but when I had ended my Prayer my Enemy fiercely assaulted me I could neither see any thing nor hear or doe any thing but evil Motions were forced into my mind and though I besought the Lord more than thrice I could not be free from that affliction Sometimes through my dark and cloudy fancy I had temptations that there was no God which was very vexatious to me And I impatient of it desired to apprehend a God all Vengeance and Terrour rather than no God at all But the Lord was pleased to obviate that Temptation by my meditating on the Creation My Father much loved Flowers and as the Season of the Year would afford always had his Flower-Pots standing by him where he sate writing in his Shop but then were above in the Parlor window to which I often went to countermine my Temptation in admiring the curious Works of the God of Nature With others there was then in flower a Calcedon Iris full of the impresses of God's curious workmanship which the Lord was pleased to make use of to raise my poor heart and thoughts to the admiring and adoring of him Blessed be God that that Temptation was not above my strength In the time of my extremity I went to Mr. Watson a good Man Minister of Stephen's Walbrook the Parish wherein we lived To him I imparted somewhat of my trouble he strove to comfort me I found little ease with my burthen it grew more heavy I repented I had made my condition known I thought my estate to be singular and that I should