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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13094	A christal glasse for christian vvomen containing, a most excellent discourse, of the godly life and Christian death of Mistresse Katherine Stubs, who departed this life in Burton vpon Trent, in Staffordshire the 14. day of December. 1590. With a most heauenly confession of the Christian faith, which shee made a little before her departure: as also a wonderfull combate betwixt Sathan and her soule: worthie to be imprinted in letters of golde, and are to be engrauen in the tables of euery Christian heart. Set downe word for word, as she spake it, as neere as could be gathered: by Phillip Stubbes Gent.	Stubbes, Phillip.	1592 (1592)	STC 23382; ESTC S104605	19,337	22

mee loue not the worlde nor anie thing in the worlde affirming that if I loue the worlde the loue of the father is not in mee Againe Christ biddeth mee first seeke the kingdome of heauen and the righteousnesse thereof and then all these worldly things shall be giuen to me Godlines is great riches if a man be cōtent with that that he hath I haue chosen with good Mary in the 10. of Luke the better part which shall neuer be taken from me Gods treasure she would say is neuer drawne drie I haue inough in this life God make mee thankeful and I knowe I haue but a short time to liue here and it standeth me vpon to haue regard to my saluation in the life to come Thus the godly yong Gentlewoman held on her course three or four yeares after she was maried at which time it pleased God that she conceiued with a man Childe after which conception she would say to her husbande and many other her good neighbours and friendes yet liuing not once nor twise but many times that she should neuer beare more Children that that child should be her death that she should liue but to bring that child into the world Which thing no doubt was reuealed vnto her by the spirit of God for according to her prophecie so it came to passe The time of her account being come she was deliuered of a goodly man childe with as much speede and as safely in all womens iudgements as any could be And after her deliuerie she grew so strong that she was able within foure or fiue dayes to sit vp in her bed and to walke vp and downe her chamber and within a fortnight to goe abroad in the house beeing throughly well and past all daunger as euerie one thought But presently vpon this so sodaine recouerie it pleased God to visite her againe with an extreame hot and burning quotidian Ague in which sickenesse she languished for the space of sixe weekes or there abouts During all which time she was neuer seene nor perceyued to sleepe one houre together neither night nor day and yet the Lord kept her which was miraculous in her perfect vnderstanding sense and memorie to the last breath praised be his holy name therfore In all her sicknes which was both long and grieuous shee neuer shewed any signe of discontentment or of impatiencie neither was there euer heard one worde come forth of her mouth soūding either of desperation or infidelitie of mistrust or distrust or of any doubting or wauering but alwayes remayned faithfull and resolute in her God And so desirous was she to be with the Lord that these golden sentences were neuer out of her mouth I desire to be dissolued and to bee with Christ. And oh miserable wretch that I am who shall deliuer mee from this bodie subiect to sinne Come quickly Lord Iesus come quickly Like as the hart desireth the water springs so dooth my soule thirst after thee O God I had rather bee a doorekeeper in the house of my God then to dwell in the tents of the wicked with many other heauenly sentences which least I should seeme tedious I willingly omit She would alwayes pray in her sicknes absolutely that God would take her out of this miserable world and when her husband and others would desire her to pray for health if it were the will of God She would answer I beseech you pray not that I should liue for I thinke it long to be with my God Christ is to me life and death is to me aduantage I cannot enter into life but by death therefore is death the doore or entrance into euerlasting life to me I know and am certainely perswaded by the spirit of God that the sentence of my death is giuen alredy by the great Iudge in the court or parliament of heauen that I shal now depart out of this life and therefore pray not for me that I might liue here but pray to God to giue me strength patience to perseuer to the end to close vp mine eies in a iustifying faith in the blood of my Christ. Somtimes she would speake very softly to her self sometimes very audibly these words doubling thē an hundred times togither Oh my good God why not now Why not now oh my good God I am redie for theee I am prepared oh receiue me now for thy Christs sake Oh send thy messenger death to fetch me send thy sergeant to arrest me thy purseuant to attach me thy herauld to summon me oh send thy Iaylour to deliuer my soule out of prison for my body is nothing else but a stinking prison to my soule Oh send thy holy Angels to conduct my soule vnto the euerlasting kingdome of heauen Other sometimes she would lie as it were in a slumber her eyes closed and her lips vttering these wordes very softly to her selfe oh my sweet Iesus oh my loue Iesus why not now sweet Iesus why not now Oh sweet Iesus pray for me pray for me sweete Iesus repeating them many times together These and infinite the like were her dayly speeches and continuall meditations neuer worser word was there heard to come forth of her mouth during all the time of hir sickenesse She was accustomed many times as she lay verie suddenly to fall into a sweet smiling and sometimes into a most heartie laughter her face appearing right faire redde amiable and louely and her countenance seemed as though she greatly reioyced at some glorious sight And when her husband would aske her why she smiled and laughed so shee would say if you sawe such glorious visions and heauenly sightes as I see you would reioyce and laugh with me for I see a vision of the ioyes of heauen and the glory that I shal go too and I see infinite millions of Angels attendant vpon me and watching ouer me readie to carie my soule into the kingdome of heauen In regard whereof she was willing to forsake her selfe her husband her childe and all the world besides And so calling for her child which the Nurse brought vnto her she tooke it in her armes and kissing it said God blesse thee my sweete babe and make thee an heire of the kingdome of heauen and kissing it againe deliuered it to the nurse with these wordes to her husband standing by Beloued husband I bequeath this my child vnto you hee is no longer mine hee is the Lordes and yours I forsake him you and all the world yea and mine owne selfe and esteeme al things dung that I may win Iesus Christ. And I pray you sweet husband bring vp this childe in good letters in learning and discipline and aboue all things see that he be brought vp and instructed in the exercise of true religion The childe being taken away shee espied a little Puppie or Bitch which in her life time she loued well lying vpon her bed she had no sooner espied