ito c[=o]motus
this Holy Reuenge on her selfe a | est, desinit irasci alteri. Id.
true fruit of Euangelicall | ibid._]
Repentance? _2 Cor. 7. 11._ |
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But aye me! me thinkes I now heare | [Note: _Her Agonie._]
her groaning vunder the dolefull |
pangs of Death, vnder those pangs |
of which shee had foretold saying: |
I shall suffer much more ere I goe |
hence. And can any haue the heart |
to heare her groaning pangs, |
without renting his owne heart from |
his darling pleasure? without |
lamenting his owne sinnes, which |
vnlesse he forsake betimes, will |
bring him to euerlasting | [Note x: _Ezek. 18. 13, 30._]
Burnings[x]? or without learning to |
compassionate euery weake one, to | [Note y: _--Si quem viderimus
assist any one yeelding vp the | pauper[=e] moriturum, sumptu
Ghost, because (as Saint _Ambrose_ | iuvemus, & dicat vnusquisq,
giues the reason[y]) the holy | nostrum: Benedictio morituri in me
Peophet _Iob_ desired the Blessing | veniat: Si qu[=e] viderimus
of one, that lyes a Dying: | debilem, non deseramus, si quem in
_Benedictio morituri, in me veniat: | extremis positum, non relinquam^s._
Let the blessing of him that is | _S. Ambros. de Bono Mort. cap. 8.
readie to die, come vpon me!_ | tom. 4._]
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Let vs then, not yet, leaue this | [Note: _Deuotion at Her Death._]
Departing Saint. For in the midst |
of this her Agonie, after shee had |
layen groaning many houres without |
any articulate or distinct speech, |
yet vpon triall made of Her sense |
and memory by demanding of Her, |
whether she would haue prayers made |
for Her, she answered plainly: With |
all my heart, pray, pray. And then |
as _Gregory Nazianzen_[a] reports | [Note a: _Orat. 28. de Funere
of his Father, that though He was | Patris. Tom. 2._]
daily, yea hourely, in great paine |
before his Death, yet He was euer |
still and quiet from paine, onely |
while Diuine Seruice was saying; so |
this Deuout Lady forgetting (as it |
were) Her former Groanings, did |
listen attentiuely to the prayers |
that were made for Her, without |
fetching so much as one sob during |
that time. And afterwards |
rehearsing distinctly part of the