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A57578	The happiness of a quiet mind both in youth and old age, with the way to attain it in a discourse occasioned by the death of Mrs. Martha Hasselborn who died March 13th, 1695/6, in the 95th year of her age / By Timothy Rogers ...	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1696 (1696)	Wing R1851; ESTC R11977	40,028	114

Condition they recreated and pleased their Acquaintance with the sweet Odours of their Charity their Meekness and their good Works For when the Flower and the Green is Blasted by the cold of Death they are after all like the tender Plants Medicinal even when dryed and in their most unbeautiful State of great use and service to the World The Scripture perpetuates the Memory of several good Women as well as Men as Sarah and Rebeccah and Rachel and Miraim and Hannah and Deborah and the Blessed Virgin and that affectionate Person that scrupled no cost to shew her respect to our Saviour Mark 14.9 And Jesus loved Martha and her Sister and Lazarus John 11.5 He often met with a welcome at their Hospitable House And St. Paul greets Priscilla as well as Aquila and Mary and Julia and several others in Rom. 16. This Old Disciple of Christ of whom I am now to speak had spent her years in the Fear and the Love of God and full of Days full of pleasant quietness and hope she is gone to Rest She calmly Sleeps till the Morning of the Resurrection when she will have a Body without all the marks of withering and decayed Age a Body full of Lustre full of Activity and Like to the glorious body of our Lord Like the Angels that possess an eternal Youth their Beams never dimly shine their Light never weakly burns After a long Circulation of Hymns and Joys their Praises are as cheerful and their Voices as loud as ever This aged Servant of our Lord had made it her great business to trust in him and in the midst of Revolutions that were attended with threatning Prospects she remain'd unmoved When others were frighted with Alarums and the imagined approaches of Bloody Enemies she was undisturb'd saying I have a good God and I fear nothing and often used to say They are well kept that God keeps for she safely dwelt under the shadow of his Wings and as one that knew that the thoughts and discourse of worldly things were very unseasonable in a dying Hour she settled all her affairs before Death gave the last Summons and so was prepared to dye She possessed to almost an Hundred a a very good Age without pineing weakness and the sorrows that cloud others and send them early to the Grave She was now and then afflicted but she was never overwhelmed This good Woman spent her time in Prayer and Reading of the Holy Scripture that best of Books that great Conveyer of all Heavenly Light and Heat Where are the gracious Souls to whom this Revelation was not dear and precious What sort of People are those whose Ignorance and Rudeness forces them to Ridicule what others lay their whole stress for another World upon Dear to her as well as to all other Holy Souls was her Bible there she placed her trust thence she drew her Supports and Consolations This was her Lanthorn in this World during the darkness of her Pilgrimage she now needs it not where there is everlasting Day Next to the Blessed Scripture she often read in Dr. Preston Dr. Sibbs and in the Lives of Luther and Calvin and some of their Works in English On Precious and Reviving Names of Men that were Stars of the first Magnitude that shined in the Church And when they were placed in superiour Orbes lest their influence and heat behind they still edifie the Church by their Grave and Learned Writings in which every thing is manly and substantial and nothing slovingly or ridiculous or trifling and unbecoming the Majesty of Divinity and the Character they bore How much more happy were those useful Men in leaving such solid Writings behind them then are some of the Poets of our days who sauce a great part of their Composures with Wit and Folly or as I may say with foolish Wit whilst they content themselves in dressing up Vice with soft and easie Names and accommodate every thing to the gust and humour of a depraved Age and do not so much Combat with Sin as discover it study more to please then to profit their Books are Contagious whilst the Authors are alive and when they dye they do like Nero leave Poison behind them and propagate infection for a long time together Among all the rest of the Old Divines she had a particular respect to Dr. Preston which shewed that she had both a good Tast and Judgment in Divine things His solidity and wise management of truth gave Light to her Understanding and his serious and devout Applications warmed her Heart And of all the Works of this Pious Doctor she was most pleased and edified with his Discourse about God's All-sufficiency and so was another Old Disciple that I knew of above 90. that found always a peculiar refreshment in that very Treatise So wisely did these Aged People having sorrowfully viewed the Vanities of Life and of all Creatures betake themselves to God alone whose help they sought and whose help they found As she was careful to prepare her own Soul for another World she also thirsted for the welfare and happiness of others and often passed the moments that were most free from pain in pressing them to mind things of the greatest and most lasting Consequence desiring them to prepare to dye and earnestly moving them in order to this to live an Holy Life fully thinking with the great Apostle that Without holiness none can see the Lord. The sight of the pure Majesty of Heaven would be amazing and astonishing to a Soul full of evil inclinations to objects terrene and sensual Therefore this excellent Woman did often desire her Friends to take care least they were in their way of living like persons walking in a Gallery that went forwards and backwards without advancing any nearer to their Journeys end intimating that she wisht they might every day be nearer Heaven then they were before With a mighty pleasure when I was once with her she discoursed of the forementioned famous Divines and of the advantages she had by the Preaching and Sermons of many worthy Men such as Mr. Burroughs Mr. Lockyer old Mr. Calamy and several others whom she had long Survived Her Lot indeed was cast in happy times and she had the favour to live in the days of our Fore-fathers when Religion was more practised and esteemed then alas now it is The Puritans disputed less then we and lived better Oh that their Catholick Charity their peaceable Spirit and their innocent simplicity might have a Resurrection She lived to see most of her old Acquaintance removed by Death and so was after having been satisfied with living very willing to depart that she and her Friends might meet again She trusted God in her Health and so she died when her Pain and Sickness came upon her She often desired one that attended her in her near approaches to Eternity to read the first words of the 40th Psalm as extremely suitable to her own Case and Temper She was very