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An account of the blessed end of Gulielma Maria Penn, and of Springet Penn, the beloved wife and eldest son of William Penn
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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1699
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Wing P1243; ESTC R220386
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quickly Replied upon me with a serious yet sweet Look All is Mercy dear Father every thing is Mercy Another time when I went to Meeting at Parting he said Remember me my dear Father before the Lord Though I cannot go to Meetings yet I have many good Meetings the Lord comes in upon my Spirit I have Heavenly Meetings with him by my self And not many days before he died the Lord appearing by his Holy Power upon his Spirit when alone at my Return asking him how he did he told me O I have had a Sweet Time a Blessed Time great Enjoyments the Power of the Lord overcame my Soul a sweet Time indeed And telling him how some of the Gentry that had been to visit him were gone to their Games and Sports and Pleasures and how little Consideration the Children of Men had of God and their latter End and how much Happier he was in this Weakness to have been otherwise Educated and to be preserved from those Temptations to Vanity c. he Answered It is all stuff my dear Father It is sad stuff O that I might live to tell them so Well my dear Child I Replied Let this be the time of thy entering into secret Covenant with God that if he Raise thee thou wilt dedicate thy Youth Strength and Life to him and his People and Service He returned Father that is not now to do it is not now to do with great Tenderness upon his Spirit Being ever almost near him and doing any thing for him he wanted or desired he broke out with much Sence and Love My dear Father if I live I will make Thee amends And speaking to him of Divine Enjoyments that the Eye of Man saw not but the Soul made alive by the Spirit of Christ plainly felt he in a lively Remembrance cried out O I had a sweet Time yesterday by my self O the Lord hath preserved me to this day O Blessed be his Name my Soul Praises him for his Mercy O Father it is of the Goodness of the Lord that I am so well as I am Fixing his Eyes upon his Sister he took her by the Hand saying Poor Tishe Look to good things Poor Child there is no Comfort without it One drop of the Love of God is worth more than all the World I KNOW IT I HAVE TASTED IT I have felt as much or more of the Love of God in this Weakness than in all my Life before At another time as I stood by him he looked up upon me and said Dear Father sit by me I love thy Company and I know thou lovest mine and if it be the Lord's Will that we must Part be not troubled for that will trouble me Taking something one Night in Bed just before his going to Rest he sat up and fervently Prayed thus O Lord God Thou whose Son said to his Disciples Whatever ye ask in my Name ye shall receive I Pray thee in his Name Bless this to me this Night and give me Rest if it be thy Blessed Will O Lord And accordingly he had a very Comfortable Night of which he took a Thankful Notice before us next day And when he at one time more than ordinary Expressed a desire to Live and entreated me to pray for him he added And dear Father if the Lord should Raise me and Enable me to serve him and his People then I might Travel with thee sometimes and we might Ease one another meaning in the Ministry He spoke it with great Modesty Upon which I said to him My dear Child if it please the Lord to Raise thee I am satisfied it will be so and if not then in as much as it is thy Fervent Desires in the Lord he will look upon thee just as if thou didst Live to serve him and thy Comfort will be the same So either way it will be well For if thou should'st not Live I do verily believe thou wilt have the Recompence of thy good Desires without the Temptations and Troubles that would attend if long Life were granted to thee Saying one day thus I am a resolved I will have such a thing done he immedately catch'd himfelf and fell into this Reflection with much Contrition Did I say I will O Lord forgive me that irreverent and hasty Expression I am poor weak Creature and live by thee and therefore I should have said If it pleaseth thee that I Live I intend to do so or so Lord forgive my Rash Expression Seeing my present Wife ready to be helpful and do any thing for him he turned to her and said Don't thee do so let them don't trouble thy self so much for such a poor Creature at I am And taking leave of him a few Nights before his end he said to her Pray for me dear Mother thou art good and innocent may be the Lord may hear thy Prayers for me for I desire my strength again that I might live and employ it more in the Lord's Service Two or three days before his departure he called his Brother to him and looking Awefully upon him said Be a good Boy and know there is a God a Great and Mighty God who is a Rewarder of the Righteous and so he is of the Wicked but their Rewards are not the same Have a care of Idle People and idle Company and love good Company and good Friends and the Lord will Bless thee I have seen good things for thee since my Sickness if thou dost but fear the Lord And if I should not live though the Lord is All-sufficient Remember what I say to thee when I am dead and gone Poor Child the Lord Bless thee come and Kiss me Which melted us all into great Tenderness but his Brother more particularly Many good Exhortations he gave to some of the Servants and others that came to see him that were not of our Communion as well as those that were which drew Tears from their Eyes The day but one before he died he went to take the Air in a Coach but said at his return Really Father I am exceeding weak thou canst not think how weak I am My dear Child I replied thou art weak but God is strong who is the Strength of thy Life Ay that is it said he which upholds me And the day before he departed being alone with him he desired me to fasten the Door and looking earnestly upon him said Dear Father thou art a dear Father and I know thy Father come let us two have a little Meeting a private Ejaculation together now no Body else is here O my Soul is sensible of the Love of God! And indeed a sweet time we had like to Precious Ointment for his Burial He desired to go home if not to Live to Die there and we made Preparation for it being Twenty Miles from my House and so much stronger was his Spirit than his Body that he spoke of going next Day which was the Morning he departed and a Symptom it was of his greater Journey to his longer Home That Morning he left us growing more and more Sensible of his extreme Weakness he asked me as doubtful of himself How shall I get Home I told him in a Coach he answered I am best in a Coach But observing his decay I said Why Child Thou art at home every where Ay said he so I am in the Lord. I took that Opportunity to ask him If I should remember his Love to his Friends at Bristol London c. Yes Yes said he my Love in the Lord my Love to all Friends in the Lord And Relations too He said Ay to be sure Being asked if he would have his Ass's Milk or eat any thing He answered No more outward Food but Heavenly Food is provided for me His Time drawing on a-pace he said to me My dear Father Kiss me thou art a dear Father I desire to prize it how can I make thee amends He also called his Sister and said to her Poor Child come and Kiss me between whom seemed a tender and long Farewell I sent for his Brother that he might Kiss him too which he did all were in Tears about him Turning his Head to me he said softly Dear Father hast no hope for me I answered My dear Child I am afraid to hope and I dare not despair but am and have been Resigned though one of the hardest Lessons I ever Learned He Paused a while and with a Composed Frame of Mind he said Come Life come Death I am Resigned O the Love of God overcomes my Soul Feeling himself decline a-pace and seeing him not able to bring up the Matter that was in his Throat some Body fetch'd the Doctor but so soon as he came in he said Let my Father speak to the Doctor and I 'll go sleep which he did and waked no more Breathing his last on my Breast the 10th Day of the 2d Month between the Hours of Nine and Ten in the Morning 1696. in his One and Twentieth Year So ended the Life of my Dear Child and Eldest Son much of my Comfort and Hope and one of the most Tender and Dutiful as well as Ingenuous and Vertuous Youths I knew if I may say so of my own Dear Child In whom I lost all that any Father can lose in a Child since he was capable of any thing that became a Sober Young Man My Friend and Companion as well as most Affectionate and Dutiful Child May this Loss and End have its due Weight and Impression upon all his dear Relations and Friends and those to whose hands this Account may come for their Remembrance and Preparation for their great and last Change and I have my End in making my Dear Child 's thus far Publick William Penn. 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AN ACCOUNT OF THE Blessed End OF Gulielma Maria Penn AND OF Springet Penn The Beloved WIFE and Eldest SON of William Penn. Printed for the Benefit of his Family Relations and particular Friends in Memory of them and the Lord's Goodness to Them AN ACCOUNT OF THE Blessed End Of my Dear Wife Gulielma Maria Penn. The Memory of the Just is Blessed Prov. 10. 7. MY Dear Wife after eight Month's Illness though she never perfectly recoved her weakness the Year before which held her about six Months Departed this Life the 23 d of the 12 th Month 1693 4 about half an hour past two in the Afternoon being the sixth Day of the Week and the Fiftieth Year of her Age and was sensible to the very last During her Illness she uttered many living and weighty Expressions upon divers Occasions both before and near her End Some of which I took down for mine and her dear Childrens Consolation At one of the many Meetings held in her Chamber we and our Children and one of our Servants being only present in a tendering and living Power she broke out as she sate in her Chair Let us all prepare not knowing what Hour or Watch the Lord cometh O I am full of Matter Shall we receive Good and shall we not receive Evil things at the hands of the Lord I have cast my care upon the Lord he is the Physician of Value my Expectation is wholly from him He can raise up and He can cast down A while after she said Oh what shall be done to the unprofitable Servant At another Meeting before which much Heaviness seemed to lie upon her Natural Spirits she said This has been a precious Opportunity to me I am finely relieved and comforted Blessed be the Lord. At another time as I was speaking to her of the Lord's Love and Witness of his Spirit that was with her to give her the Peace of Well-doing she returned to me looking up For said she I never did to my a knowledge a wicked thing in all my Life To a Friend Aged 75 Years that came to see her she said Thou and I to all appearance are near our Ends. And to another about 65 Years old that came also to see her she said How much older has the Lord made me by this weakness than thou art But I am contented I do not murmur I submit to his Holy Will In the strength of her Fits and Vapours she said 'T is the great Goodness of the Lord that I should be able to lie thus still He is the Physician of Value to me can I say Let my Tongue set forth his Praise and my Spirit Magnifie Him whilst I have Breath O I am ready to be transported beyond my strength God was not in the Thunder nor in the Lightening but he was heard in the Still Voice She did at several times pray very sweetly and in all her Weakness manifested the most equal undaunted and resigned Spirit as well as in all other respects she was an excelling Person both as Child Wife Mother Mistress Friend and Neighbour She called the Children one day when weak and said Be not frighted Children I do not call you to take my leave of you but to see you and I would have you walk in the Fear of the Lord and with his People in his Holy Truth or to that Effect Speaking at another time solemnly to the Children she said I never desired any Great Things for you but that you may fear the Lord and walk in his Truth among his People to the end of your days c. She would not suffer me to neglect any publick Meeting after I had my Liberty upon her Account saying often O go my dearest Don't hinder any Good for me I desire thee go I have cast my care upon the Lord I shall see thee again About three hours before her End a Relation taking leave of her she said again I have cast my care upon the Lord My dear Love to all Friends and lifting up her Dying Hands and Eyes pray'd the Lord to preserve them and bless them About an hour after causing all to withdraw we were half an hour together in which we took our last leave saying all that was fit upon that solemn Occasion She continued Sensible and eat something about an hour before her Departure at which time our Children and most of the Family were present she quietly Expired in my Arms her Head upon my Bosom with a sensible and Devout Resignation of her Soul to Almighty God I hope I may say she was a Publick as well as Private Loss for she was not only an excellent Wife and Mother but an Entire and Constant Friend of a more than common Capacity and greater Modesty and Humility yet most equal and undaunted in Danger Religious as well as Ingenuous without Affectation An easie Mistress and good Neighbour especially to the Poor Neither lavish nor penurious but an Example of Industry as well as of other Vertues Therefore our great Loss tho' her own Eternal Gain Sorrow and Joy IN THE LOSS and END OF Springet Penn. MY very Dear Child and Eldest Son Springet Penn did from his Childhood manifest a Disposition to Goodness and gave me hope of a more than ordinary Capacity and time satisfied me in both respects For besides a good share of Learning and especially of Mathematical Knowledge he shewed a judgment in the use and application of it much above his Years He had the Seeds of many good Qualities rising in him that made him Beloved and consequently Lamented but especially his Humility Plaineness and Truth with a Tenderness and Softness of Nature that if I may say it were an improvement upon his other Good Qualities But though these were no Security against Sickness and Death yet they went a good way to facilitate a due Preparation for them And indeed the Good Ground that was in him shewed it self very plainly sometime before his Illness For more than half a Year before it pleased the Lord to visit him with Weakness he grew more Retired and much disengaged from Youthful Delights shewing a remarkable Tenderness in Meetings even when they were silent But when He saw himself doubtful as to his Recovery he turn'd his Mind and Meditations more apparently towards the Lord secretly as also when they were in the Room that attended upon him Praying often with great Fervency to the Lord and uttering very many Thankful Expressions and Praises to him in a deep and sensible manner One day he said to us I am Resigned what God Pleaseth he knows what 's best I would live if it Pleased him that I might serve him But O Lord not my Will but thy Will be done One speaking to him of the Things of this World and what might Please him when Recovered He answered My Eye looks another way where the truest Pleasure is When he told me he had Rested well and that I said it was a Mercy to him he