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A relation of the last words and departure of that antient and honourable woman Loveday Hambly of Trigangeeues, in the parish of Austell in the County of Cornwal. With farther testimonies concerning her life and conversation.
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Hambly, Loveday, 1603 or 4-1682.
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1683
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Wing H472; ESTC R216508
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her Free Gift after her Decease and that Friends who did Travel in the Truths Service and were in want might be supplyed by those to whom she left her Outward Estate else said she I should never have left it to him Here follow several of her Expressions taken by such as were with her the Night before her Departure My Heart and Soul is poured forth unto thee O thou Eternal God thou art the Comfort and Salvation of Old Age and the Desire of my Heart is that all my Friends may be kept faithful to the Living God for I declare here in the Presence of the Lord and before you that I do love all the Children and Servants of the Living God with all my Heart Soul and Strength And I desire the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob with all my Heart and Soul that I may faithfully fight under his Banner Moreover she said The Lord knows my Heart I never loved the Riches of this World for what is it worth it is all Vanity and Vexation of Spirit At another time she said I desire to take up the Shield of Faith and the Helmet of Salvation and that I may dwell in the House of God After she had layn still a pritty while like one in a sweet Sleep she opened her eyes and seeing some of her Friends and Servants about her she smilingly said Methinks I have been in a great Warefare and there was mighty Doings and O what a Comfort it was to me we will not fall out about it for their Kingdom must come into my Kingdom Again she said My God look over them keep all thy Handmaids my God my God And not long before her Departure in a good sence and deep Expression of Soul she said Glory Glory Eternal Glory for thy great Kindnest and Love to thy Handmaid And many times after she would begin some good words which she was not able to utter forth but some Friends standing by her would help her therein and then she would rejoyce that her Mind was uttered by another and so continued quiet as a Lamb for about fourteen hours before her Departure then deep groans did proceed from her unâ—il the eighth hour in the Morning on the 14th day of the 10th Month 1682 at which time she departed this Life and slept with her Fathers and as we hope and verily believe is entred into a blessed Eternity And this is written and witnessed unto by thy Loving Friends Thomas Salthouse Richard Tregenow Anne Salthouse Loveday Beachamp With several Servants and other Attendants A farther Testimony concerning Dear Loveday Hambly from T. S. SHould I undertake to set forth a Declaration of her Vertue in the last twenty years of her Life while I have had acquaintance with her it would require the Pen of a far readyer Writer and fill more Paper than is intended at this time for it is not practicable among us to garnish the Sepulcres of the Righteous nor is it any way needful to write Letters of Recommendation for the Dead who are entred into the Rest prepared for Gods People and in quiet Possession of an Inheritance among them that are Sanctifyed by Faith in Christ Jesus for the Spirit saith expresly Blessed are the Dead that dye in the Lord for they rest from their Labour and their Works follow them Our Dear Friend L. H. is now gone to her long Home and we cease to sorrow for her that is fall'n asleep like those that have no hope for if in this Life only we have hope of Christ we are of all men most miserable for many are the Tryals of the Righteous c. And truly the Tribulations Tryals and Exercises of this good Woman were many in the Days of her Pilgrimage in this present World as may in part appear by the Records of our Friends Sufferings in this County some of which are in Print and some in Manuscript besides Reproaches Tryals and cruel Mockings that did attend us while the way was every where spoken against in which we walk and Worship the only true God of our Fathers in Spirit and in Truth This Good Friend and Antient Widdow Woman was several times cast into Prison at Lanceston and Bodmine for the Possession and Practice of her Religion and once constrained to ride to London which is about 220 Miles from her House to make appearance there for Non-payment of Tythes c. and at several times had her Goods taken away in great Quantities to the value of many hundreds of pounds sometimes fourty Head of Cattle at once for her faithful Testimony against the Oppression of Tythes and she did always take joyfully the spoiling of her Goods with Bonds and Imprisonmenâ—s that did often attend her for Matter of Conscience for no occasion could justly be taken against her except concerning the Righteous Law Way and Worship of the Living God for in other Cases she was always careful to owe nothing to any Man but Love greatest Policy Prudence and Care was to promote the Interest of the pretious Truth and not only the Form but the Power of Godliness her House was made a House of Prayer her Heart and Hand was bountiful and open to administer to such as needed Food or Physick and the Lord was pleased to give a great Blessing to her Endeavours many of her Neighbours are witnesses or it at this day her Charity and Hospitality was not confined to her Relations and the People of her own Perswasion but was extended to Rich and Poor Strangers and Enemies yea she was truly Kind and Charitable in her day to the utmost of her Ability few in this Generation did exceed her for Love and Good Works she was no Orator as to express her Mind by Men-pleasing Excellency of Speech or inticing fine words that Mens Wisdom teacheth but her Love was manifested to be real Love not in words only but in Deed and in Truth which gives me this Confidence to say she was a Disciple indeed and the Lord blest her in her Basket and Store after all her Sufferings for Righteousness sake and she never wanted Meat Drink nor Cloathing to accomodate her Persecutors and their Children if they were either in want of Food or Raiment neither did she say be warm and be cloathed and fed by others but did it dayly and freely for they were her own words often uttered in my hearing What 's all the World I have enough I will never live miserable to dye Rich. And yet she hath left a competent Estate to be divided amongst many of her Friends and Relations and to the Poor of the Neighbouring Parishes as appears by her last Will and Testament her Command concerning her Funeral was carefully observed by her Relations and Friends and many hundreds of sober People did accompany her to her Grave in a Decent Burying Place in the Tenement of Trigangeeves where her Dead Body is at rest and her Spirit is returned to God that gave it and to the