[Note: _Kindred._]
_Ruth_, and to them by bloud |
another _Hester_. |
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To Her Seruants, shee was | [Note: _Seruants._]
bountifull in their Health; |
compassionate (as _Fabiola_[b]) in | [Note b: _Id. Epitaph. Fabiola._]
their Sicknesse, either of Minde or |
of Body, prouiding for them (like |
the Centurion) both spirituall and |
corporall Physicke. |
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To All, Her whole Deportment was so | [Note: _Religious Deportm[=e]t to
Louely, so sweet, what _by the law | all._]
of kindnesse in her tongue_[c], |
Salutations, Gifts, Almes-Deeds, | [Note c: _Prou. 31. 26._]
Visitations, Inuitations, and by |
other offices of courtesies and |
Hospitalities, that Her Amiable |
Behauiour was a powerfull Meanes, |
an attractiue Load-stone to draw |
vnto Her the hearts and loues of as |
many as knew Her, yea as but heard |
of Her. |
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But vnto Gods children she euer | [Note: _Especially vn-vnto Gods
only afforded the dearest pangs, | people._]
the highest Degree of her kindest |
Affection[d]: Their company she | [Note d: _Psal. 16. 3. Psal. 119.
most loued, and they Hers. Not so | 63, 79. Gal. 6. 10. 1 Pet. 2.
much in regard of Her fauour | 17. Coloss. 1. 4._]
towards them, which was great; but |
chiefly by reason of that spiritual |
Helpe and refreshment, which they |
might get by conuersing with Her in |
the choicest passages of |
Sanctification. For shee had the |
Art to vphold holy conferences |
about perplexities of conscience, |
Relapses into sin, and Remedies |
against the same: Shee had the |
skill to beget many ioyfull |
Meditations of mortifying Grace and |
euerlasting Glory: She had the |
Zeale to nourish Heauenly |
mindednesse, boldnesse in the |
waies, and cheerefulnesse in the |
exercises of Religion and Deuotion. |
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Touching Her submission to the | [Note: _Constant vse of the Meanes
Meanes of Saluation: O what delight | of Saluation._]
shee tooke here and in _London_, to |
heare conscionable and searching |
Sermons! It was Her onely Pleasure |
in tha