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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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