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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	heart_n	lord_n	walk_v	4,576	5	7.3473	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B22887	Living testimonies concerning the death of the righteous. Or The blessed end of Joseph Featherstone and Sarah his daughter; written by Sarah his wife, and Thomas Browne her second husband; not unworthy the knowledge of friends and their posterity; that all may be incouraged to live well, that their latter end may be blessed. Also something concerning Charles Wray, Grace Browne, and Katharine Browne her daughter, writ by Thomas Browne the elder, in Partney in the county of Lincoln. All of them being a sweet favour of life, laid down their heads in peace	Featherstone, Sarah, of Partney-Mills, Lincolnshire.; Browne, Thomas, of Partney. aut; Wray, Charles, member of the Society of Friends. aut	1689 (1689)	Wing F576B	16,265	47

how he brought him through the Wilderness and from off the barren Mountains and bore up his head above many Temptations and Trials within and without and set his Feet upon a Rock and established his goings so that he could call to his Neighbours and Acquaintance to come and taste how good the Lord is to them that wait upon him and many a time could speak a Word in season to such as were seeking the Living amongst the Dead and his circumspect Walking reached the Hearts of many for he loved Truth in the inward parts and to do the Will of the Lord was his great delight He was Convinced of Gods Everlasting Truth the Twenty ninth Year of his Age whom the Lord made Instrumental in his Hand towards my Convincement he was a true Yoke-fellow indeed his Company to me was very dear and my Soul hath often been refreshed in his savoury Life which hath caused my loss of so dear a Husband and so true a help-meet to be the greater but knowing it to be of the Lord I desire to be submitted to his blessed Will that he alone may have the Glory of his own Works for he is worthy who is God blessed for ever In the time of his Sickness the Lord was pleased to bear him up in much Patience and he was freely given up to the Will of the Lord the day aster he fell Sick I sitting by him he perceiving I was much troubled he said Dear heart give me up to the Will of the Lord for said he I can freely give up all and when some Friends came to visit him he Exhorted them to Faithfulness And then the Lord would make a Dying-Bed Comfortable to them and said though he felt much Sickness and Pain upon his Body yet the Refreshments that he felt from the Lord made all his Troubles easie then he spoke many comfortable Words to me saying How good the Lord had been to us in many Exercises and Tryals and through his great Love bore up our heads above them all and his Prayers was to the Lord that we might be preserved in his holy Fear and undefiled Way to bear a Testimony to the blessed Truth to the end of our days And then he desired me that his dear Child should be brought up in the Nurture and Fear of the Lord and Educated in the plain and decent Parts that belongeth to a Woman but upon a needless Seam nor any thing superfluous no not to lift her hand to do for that said he Will bring dishonour to the blessed Truth and be a Burthen to the simple-Hearted and draw out the minds of the young ones after Vanity which thing said he my Soul hateth The day before he was taken away he seemed to be something restless I said dear Heart thou art Restless then he with a chearful Countenance said Do'st thou not know where the Weary go to Rest and said my Rest and Fellowship is with the Lord Some Friends came to Visit him who asked how it was with him he said I am well I feel no Sickness and told them he was glad to see them and was much Refreshed in his Spirit and many sweet Refreshments from the Lord ran through him to the great Comfort and Refreshment of the honest-Hearted then he desired to be alone saying I would see if I could get a little Sleep and so rested a pretty time and then I asked him how he felt himself he said I am well blessed be the Lord and desired me to be satisfied for he was satisfied and lifting up his Hands said O Lord thou art the Eternal God and so fell asleep in the Lord where he is gone far above the reach of his Persecutors to praise the Lord that sits upon the Throne and the Lamb for evermore in the undoubted sence thereof my Soul doth praise and Magnifie the Lord on his behalf who counted him worthy to suffer for his Name sake by bearing a faithful Testimony against the Hireling Priests who like devouring Wolves seek to lay Waste Gods Heritage And now having somewhat eased my Spirit I humbly desire of the Lord that he would be pleased to bear me up through all my Exercises and Tryals that he may be pleased to suffer me to be tryed withal and to endue me with Wisdom and Understanding to govern my dear Child and Family in his most holy Fear and undefiled Way to the Praise of his most holy Name Amen That when time shall be here no more I may have a Resting-place with the Lord for evermore He departed this Life the 26th day of the 9th Month 1682. in Postland in the Parish of Crowland and was Buried the 27th day in Friends-Burying-place in Crowland being Accompanied with a pretty many Friends Relations and Neighbours Postland in the Parish of Crowland being the place of my Abode the 12th of the 3d Month 1683. Sarah Featherstone A brief Relation of the Life and Death of my dear and only Child Sarah Featherstone a Maid of the Age of fifteen years wanting one Month who Departed this Life at Partney-Mills in Lincoln-Shire the 17th day of the 7th Month 1688. THere hath a weight lain upon my Spirit for some time to Write this Testimony concerning my dear and only Child For the Righteous shall be had in Everlasting Remembrance and truly it was the Lords great Love to me in giving me this dear Child which I acknowledge as a great Blessing but that which is chiefly in my Eye was the Lords great Love to her who had inclined her Heart to hear Wisdoms Voice which often calleth to the young Ones To remember their Creator in the days of their Youth and Blessed are they that hear and obey in their measure and with meek Moses chose rather to suffer Afflictions with the Children of God then to enjoy the Pleasures of Sin for a season And blessed be the Lord for ever who had inclined her Heart to Love Serve and Fear him from her tender years for from a Child she was tender and harmless in true Submission and Obedience to her Parents so that I know not that in her young time that we ever had any just cause to use the Rod for she was very tender-Hearted and of a comely Behaviour kind and courteous to all people of a meek and quiet Spirit therefore beloved of most that did know her Her dear Father Departed this Life when she was about nine years of Age who desired upon his dying-Bed That his dear Child should be brought up in the Nurture and Fear of the Lord and be Educated in the plain and decent parts that belong to a Woman but upon a needless Seam nor upon any thing Superfluous no not to lift her Hand to do for that saith he will bring Dishonour to the blessed Truth and be a burthen to the simple-Hearted and draw out the minds of the young Ones after Vanity which thing saith he my Soul hateth and his Breathings was to the Lord that

Life Oh sick at my heart which often tendred our hearts to see our dear Child pass through these great troubles at some times and then she would say Oh Lord in mercy remember me and bear me up above all my Afflictions for my heart trusteth in thee I said my dear Child if the Lord should be pleased to take thee from me where hast thou a desire to be Buried wilt thou be Buried by thy dear Father in Friends Burying-place in Crowland where we came from she said I have some thoughts formerly to have been Buried by my dear Father but considering the greatness of the Journey and so many Buried near him I am satisfied I leave it to thee and my Father I said my dear Child art thou willing to be Buried in our Burying-place where I hope to be Buried by thee she said dear Mother Bury me where thou and my Father pleaseth I leave it to you it s no matter how many Miles distance these Bodies lies our Souls shall one day rejoyce together then I asked her what she would have disposed of of that which was hers she said I would have my poor Relations have something and poor Friends Children where we came from what thee and my Father pleaseth I leave it to you for my Father is a good Man and hath been very tender over me and my Love to him hath been very dear and then she said dear Mother do not trouble me with any thing but let us be submitted to the Will of the Lord in all things do not speak to me nor give me any thing without I desire it and so lay still in a sweet frame of Spirit and with as sweet a Countenance and as chearful as if she had no such Weakness upon her only sometimes a great trouble in her head which the Lord was pleased to bear her up in much patience to pass through not a discontented word was heard to pass from her but true Contentedness in much Patience often saying Ah my dear and heavenly Father come away come away for my heart trusteth in thee some time before she departed her Speech failed her after which a sweet harmony often ran through her often lifting up her Hands with a very chearful Countenance and so she fell a sleep in the Lord who I then felt a stay to my mind living Praises to his most holy and powerful Name who is a God of endless Mercies my Spirit was much comforted in the Lord in the behalf of my dear Child in the time of her Sickness who endued her with much patience and wonderfully bore her up above all her Sickness and Pain which was upon her Body at sometimes not knowing where to lay her Head to have a little ease which she through the great love of the Lord was born up in much patience to pass through in true submission to his blessed Will and I do believe is at rest with God her Maker being asscended above all her Sorrows and Troubles to praise the Lord that sits upon the Throne and the Lamb for evermore in the undoubted sence of which my Soul doth Praise and Magnifie the Lord on her behalf and indeed the same doth out-ballance the great loss I have of her as to the outward well knowing my Loss is her everlasting Gain and desiring that I may be subject to the Will of the Lord in what he may be pleased to try me withal and that he may have the Glory of his own Works for he is worthy who gave me her and now hath taken her away Blessed and Praised be his most holy Name for ever Partney-Mills the place of my abode the the 20th of the 12th Month 1689. Sarah Brown Her Mother A POSTSCRIPT SInce I writ this Testimony concerning my dear Child there hath often fresh springs of the Lords great Love concerning her arose in my Heart which I had omitted my Duty in when this Child was in the eleventh year of her age it pleased the Lord to suffer Persecution to come upon us for the tryal of our Faith for Meeting together and Worshiping God as he requires that is in Spirit and in Truth we being at a Meeting about eight Miles from our outward Dwelling the Meeting being ended and Friends ready to depart some in the yard some in the high-way comes two Informers after a very rude manner calling of us Rogues and Whores and Swearing desperately to many untruths my Husband reproved one of them called Chipsam for Swearing he was very angry and held up his Stick and said He would break his Head did he tell him he was the Kings Officer Observe the said Chipsam was not long after carried to Linclon Goal for Debt and their dyed and was there buried after a very mean manner in the Castle yard c. But before the Meeting fell to be there again by course which was a Month they had made much spoil of Friends Goods it pleased the Lord to visit my dear Husband with much Weakness so that we could not go to the Meeting but my dear Child having a great desire to go again with her Brothers we wear freely willing and they had a peaceable Meeting and Friends ready to depart as before came the same Informers as rude or worse then before and within a few days Levied my Husbands Goods again upon the account of one of his Sons but she being under Age they could take nothing from her Father in Law upon her account at which she seemed to be troubled she having a considerable Portion in his hand and said If they be suffered to take all that my Father hath he shall not want to give up to serve the Lord so long as I have any thing and would sometimes say to me I do believe I shall never want any good thing which the Lord sees convenient for me in which she manifested her Love to him upon her dying Bed as it is fully declared in the fore-going Testimony so having eased my Spirit and discharged my Duty which I did owe I desire to rest in Peace with the Lord and in Love to his Truth and People to the end of my days and time here in this mortal World so that when time here will be no more I may lay down my Head in Peace as my dear Child hath done and then as she said upon her dying Bed Our Souls shall rejoyce together Written at Partney Mills the 11th of the 3d Month 1689. by Sarah Brown. Thomas Brown his Testimony concerning his dear Daughter-in-Law Sarah Featherstone THis Testimony I have to bear concerning my dear Friend and Relation Sarah Featherstone first let me say something of her outward Abilities she was Born of honest Parents and Educated in the plain and decent parts her dear Mother thought convenient as Sowing Kniting Reading Writing c. In which she exceeded most of her equals she was Womanly about Business and what she did she did it with all her might she was of a