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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B03394	A short testimony concerning Catherine Allardes, late wife to Iohn Fullertoune of Kinnebar who departed this life, the last day of the last moneth called February, anno 1670.	Fullerton, John, of Kinnebar, fl. 1671.	1671 (1671)	Wing F2494; ESTC R177344	6,709	16

righteousness would expel that cloud and beat back the enemy And after some words I had to her I found that rock that alwayes in the wilderness followes and gives my thristy Soul drink then assisting me to pray before her bed after which she said she had met with refreshment about evening I enquired if the enemy continued yet his assaults she said nay the battel was ended and she had the peace and love of GOD running down on her Soul as a mighty river And after that dayly comforted and strengthened me exhorting me not to mourne for her and when I would be sitting by her at sometimes when some few of us used to meet together in the Family she would warne me not to neglect the occasion of waiting on the Lord and of meeting together and edifying one another And said she thou hast more reason then thousands to be zealous for the Lord seeing he hath done for thee beyond what he hath done for thousands not can thou say that ever he failed thee in the time of thy need and he will not faill to be a help to thee and thy children in my room The time of her sickness was really a constant praying time unto her and exhorting to the fear of God she said to her sister I can say since ever I knew the truth I never wittingly disobeyed the LORD Two dayes before she departed she said to me some had been the day letting fall that our friends did not pray in the Name of Iesus which she could not receive nor owne and enquired me if I knew any such I told her I knew none such nor would I owne such for the Scripture bids ask in the Name of Iesus as Iohn hath it chap. 14.13 and chap. 16.24 And there was no acceptance but in the Name of Iesus The night she departed being the last of the twelfth Moneth I desired her that after her speach failled while life continued she would let it appear her mind was fixed on the Lord by lifting up her hands which she did almost constantly for about two houres till her breath failled during which time her Sister speaking to me said what comfort would she now take of all the Kingdoms of the world if offered her she answered againe so as with some difficulty it was heard by my laying my ear to her mouth the Lords precious truth is the sweetest thing that ever she knew and a while after she said blessed be the day that ever I knew it repeating twice over Then I said to her sister I believe clouds are far from her now she answered away with clouds clouds are far from me Therafter we could discern her lips moving to take up this words often uttered LORD IESUS After speach failled she beckned to each child at home to come to her and having lift up her eyes and hands Heaven-wards she laid them on their heads and blessed them Then I rising to stand a little in the floor in a little space she missing me looked after me and said Dear and hastily I drawing to her breath was comming off and she moved no more Which was about the 12. houre at night of the last day of the Moneth called February 1670. and about the 40. year of her Age. The next day there came one that she dearly loved that came several times to her in her sickness viz. Arthur Straton of Kirkside his Wife who was desirous to see her and lay her hand on her the which when she had she said her face appeared to her as the face of an Angel that she never saw any thing whiter and had a red on her cheeks as it seemed at a distance and others testifie her beautie was wonderful to be seen on a dead body She was generally beloved of high and low in this part of the Nation which more appeared in her sickness by so many comming and sending to see how she was even some who had never seen her face and by the general sound of the multitude at the grave side who sounded such another woman they never knew and such a Lady was there never before in Kinnaber nor likely would never be againe for none upon earth can say they knew a spot in her conversation This I write not for exalting the creature and drawing honour thereunto but that the Lord may have the glory of his work wrought in her for to him is only due all glory honour and praise let all who have the breath of the Heavenly life exalt the Lord and abase self making it of no reputation even so Lord let this be thy work on me and thine own work shal praise thee IOHN FULLERTOUN Kinnebar the 9. of the first Moneth called March 1671.

and is to preach no more Which was to me something strange to hear her so positive as was not her ordinarie I said it is very much if it be so sudden she said it is to be even so And that day in the evening there came one and told that Thomas Cowper going in to the Kirk to preach was at the Kirk door struck with a distemper and was carried back to his house out of which he never came againe with life though he lived long after And I may say the man went about that work with great reluctancie and unwillingness against the light not being so wholly given up as many of them now are to hardnesse of heart spite and enmity For one day he and I walking in my garden he said I know its Reformation ye would be at will ye stay among us to help us forward therewith I answered there was no stay in Babylon that was become the hold of every foule spirit he said is there none else there in that ye call Babylon I answered its like there is but they should not stay there nor was it to be expected that that few were able to carry on a Reformation while among them then he besought that either I or my wife would give him warrand to seek a delay of that sentance seeing he had sought it so often and now they distrusted him she and I denyed to give him warrand to seek one houre and then he cryed out with teares falling from his eyes alace for evermore that ye will not grant me that request And so the next day did cast me out who was not in their Church And some years after being about seven yeares since this present Preacher at Montrose having excommunicate my wife the which after seven dayes was told her she said it was strange the man would shew so much malice and ignorance to curse her that for any thing she knew he never saw and was sure he never spoke with her nor knew never her principles nor practises except it were what he had gathered from lying slanders but said she if we follow that that is good what can harme us and it is our place to watch that we may be keept holy and harm less in our Generation not having an evil eye against that Generation who must be doing their work in this Age as in former Ages against the Saints I may also mention that about 5. or 6. yeares since two of my Salmond-Fishers agreed to bring in to me lymestone for so much the Boat full I then having building in hand the lyme-stone about two or three mile off along the Sea-shore and one evening after their passing out of the water there arose a mighty tempest of a North-wind that they could get no shore but gave up themselves for death their oars being mostly washen from them and their saill beat down The next day they told me that two of my men were lost which weighted me verie sore and the rather because one of them was a Fellow-sufferer with me for conscience sake and the other was an extraordinarie vitious person While I was in this grief for them my wife having been sick of a long time and I sitting by her the third day after their way-going she told me the two men were safe and alive and that the wicked person whom she named was preserved for the sake of the other and not only so but the friend of truth was set safe on the rock and the other was drowned in the water but was drawn out again and saved by the friend which was truely so for their came word some dayes after that after the midle of the night the boat came in among the mighty waves of broken water at Fife-ness and one swell carried the boat upon the top of an high rock where she set her bottom being fallen out the friend looked and found the boat fast and stopt upon the rock and stood the other began also to come out and the waves plucked him over the rock the friend looked for him being Moon-light and seeing him not only saw a bonnet floating on the water and having a tree in his hand he reached the tree to the bonnet on the water the other under the water striving with death gat hold of the staff and held fast as any do in such condition the friend not knowing what it was drew and he came up and was saved to the admiration of many in that countery to this day how they were saved and he called Laird of Kin-kell Hamiltoune furnished them with money after a day or two sent them home The prophane person after that he began to abstaine from some of his wicked wayes and be more serious so that his relations caused draw blood of him as a mad-man all which I concerned not my self into knowing that his physick behoved to come from another and after some time I found it expedient to advise him to begin to walk in the good old way the light in which he would find rest for his soul and as therein he was found faithful he would come to know refreshment from the presence of the Lord Which he listned to and grew more and more clear in his judgement and since hath born a measure of testimony for the truth both in words and conversation Other things I might mention which is not fit here that my dear Wife had revealed to her of the Lord. But now I shal touch of her carriage before her departur hence About eight moneths since she told me it was showen her that she was married to another she having gotten a new Name and a white-stone and all clade in white linnen the which when told me was a wound to my heart for I concluded she was to be taken from me and joyned more near to the Lamb yet I often cryed to the Lord that if it was his will that bitter cup might depart from me not knowing but that he might be entreated to spare her a little then she began to grow sickly and six or seven weeks ago her sickness encreased much that was known she was in a dropsie about twenty dayes since she was brought to bed of a child pretty easily considering her condtition then I began to have some hopes the Lord had granted my supplication About a week after her delivery she began to be worse in her body and about six or seven dayes before her removal one day sobbing very sore she told me that the enemie of her soul was assaulting her very strongly to doubt of Gods love to her and telling her that she had been too much in the incumbrances of the world and that she had been too little devouted for Heaven and that she was not yet washen clean in the Blood of the Lamb but that there stuck some of the earth to her by her too much looking at me and her children And she desired me to cry to the Lord for her that the Son of