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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 soul unlesse the heart be quickned and carefully reduced into a praying condition It s further observable in this Lady that she had alwaies a most loving heart and free affable courteous deportment towards all both rich and poor that had any thing of Christ in them especially godly Ministers and for her charity otherwise to the poor her religious heart was so affectionately disposed to them that she could have straitned her own bowels to doe them good as she did fully evidence by her holy repining at that cost and charge which the necessity of her sicknesse inforced her to saying she had spent that cost upon a rotten carkase that was her own expression which might have comforted many a poor christian The wearisome condition of this life but I beleeve much more the joyfull expectation of a better made her exceeding willing to die yet with an humble submission to Gods will praying that whether it were life or death that condition might befall her whereby God might have most glory As it was the surest so was it also the greatest comfort her heart did joy in that God had spoken peace to her troubled soul and had graciously vouchsafed her some inward assurance of her salvation which cost her she said many a sweat and much striving before she attained thereunto Being in conference with an intimate friend of hers about the state of her soul she brake forth into a holy admiration of Gods abundant grace and favour and of the overflowing streams of his loving kindnesse to her soul Oh that God should look upon me such a poor creature as I am but all is free grace saith she all is free grace When I enter saith she into a sad and serious consideration of my sins I am exceedingly amazed and cast down but when again I recollect my self and looking out of my self call to minde the free grace of God to me in Christ Oh then this comfort refresheth my soul She took exceeding great delight in the promises of God set forth in the new Testament most whereof as very credible information gives me she writ out with her own hand in time of health Above the rest that place of St John chap. 11.13 did more especially affect her If ye shall aske any thing in my Name I will doe it She was exceeding sollicitous and fearfull over her self least any created comforts the Dalilaes of corrupt flesh should creep into and take possession of her heart as appeared by this that being moved by a certain person about her to send for her childe in which she was much delighted she durst not she answered trust her deceitfull heart lest it should be immoderately let out upon her childe as formerly it had been upon her dear husband not that she condemned that measure of affection which God and nature requires to husband and children for as for her husband it was conceived by her Physician that her extream endeavours to preserve his life was the losse of her own but to intimate how ready and prone our hearts are to break the bounds of moderation in the things of this life and to live more in the creatures then in God that gave them It was her ordinary custome after the decease of her dear husband so long as health and strength did permit to perform the duties of reading and prayer in her family in her own person so far was she from the totall neglect thereof A fault that lies heavy upon this Nation I fear one speciall provocation of Gods judgements against us at this time and a prevalent cause that our streets have stream'd with blood One would think it impossible that in these Gospel daies there should be so much atheisme in the hearts of any professing the name of Christians as that they should with boldnesse and confidence every day partake of Gods blessings yea cannot subsist without them and yet never return so much as a morning and evening sacrifice in the family in a thankfull acknowledgement of such bounty Truly God is extremely sleighted in the world and therefore no marvell if we be sleighted and rejected by him It s a sad omen that they have not much of God in their hearts that have so little of his Name in their lips I say no more but this it s an infinite mercy of God to men of this constitution that Gods mercies prove not snares to them and their meat their poison The Lord put their spirits into a more thankfull frame and make them more sensible of Gods due and their own duty I know I have stept out of my road but ●t was to bring these negligent wanderers into the way Now to return to my dear friend In her ordinary civill communication and converse amongst those she lived withall she did ever demean her self to the honour of her profession in an humble sweet and winning way but yet if any controversie did chance to arise in point of Religion she was passionately zealous in defence of truth she would through the weaknesse of her spirits then pant in her eager discourse and yet contend still till necessity did inforce her silence Her heart was extreamly averse both to them and their waies who any way held of superstitious vanities In a word she was a sincere single-hearted downright Christian nothing acquainted with the art of guile She was that which she did seem to be and did seem to be that which she ought And now I draw on towards her last breathing The morning in which she died finding death to approach This is the joyfullest day saith she that ever mine eyes beheld Being recovered out of one of her fits for she had extream convulsions she breathed out these swee though imperfect expressions I thought I should have been with my Saviour before this time Then abruptly as breath would bear My joyes are unspeakable Falling into another grievous fit she now desired if the Lord so pleased that might be her last and herein she was heard in her request being in this her last and extream strugling with death she often cried out Come Lord come Lord when Lord how long Lord and at last He is come he is come and with that speech she expressed so much comfort that she often smiled in this extremity Lastly she closed in her breath with this short ejaculation Lord I desire to breath out my soul unto thee Thus she lived and thus she died how said I died not so it was a change not death a change of place a change of comforts a change of inheritance a change from a goodly earthly promotion here to a glorious one for ever In a word it was but a pinch that did lead to a Paradise it was but a day-break to eternall brightnesse And here I wish from my heart it were within the strength and compasse of my weak indeavours to fasten this precious example upon the thoughts and consciences of the soft and delicate Ladies of our age who

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