, of | horam tui ipsius immemor esse,
Deuotion, yea and of Compunction | sobria quad[=a] ebrietate videris._
too[m]? Shee deserues some Teares | _S. Bern. in Epiph. Dom. Serm. 3._]
from vs (Beloued) as well as from |
the Poore, weeping now and shewing | [Note: _Bountie to the Poore._]
the Coats and garments which this |
_Dorcas_ made for them, while she | [Note n: _Act. 9. 36._]
was with them[n]. |
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But to stop the current of them a |
little longer. Begin we with Gods |
mercifull preseruation of Her in |
_London_ from the noysome | [Note: _Thakfulnesse for
Pestilence; because she | Deliuerance from the Plague._]
acknowledged it (as was meet) with |
humble Thankfulnesse[o]. And then | [Note o: _Psal. 91. 7. Psal. 50.
remember, that vpon Her returne | 15. Psal. 33. 1._]
home, being summoned by Sicknesse, |
by and by she set her _House in |
order_, like _Hezekiah_; She spake |
to the Hearts of Her Children, |
Friends, and Seruants, that were |
then about Her (like _Iacob_) by |
putting them in remembrance of Her |
Departure and their Duties: She |
hungered and thirsted after the |
Body and Bloud of Her Dearest | [Note: _Worthy receiving the
Sauiour, which shee receiued with | Sacrament._]
Due Examination[p] of Her |
Knowledge; Faith; Loue and | [Note p: _1 Cor. 1. 28._]
Repentance, with reuerent Gesture, |
heartie Thankfulnesse, deuout |
Attention, and very Fruitfully to |
the greater strengthning and |
refreshing of Her Soule then |
trauelling for the other Life. |
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And now (Beloued) that she lieth on |
the bed of Languishing, we must not |
be austere in reprehending euery |
Infirmity; but Pitifull in |
considering the tender frailtie of |
it. |
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For what though shee were (as Sicke | [Note: _Passionatnesse by reason of
folke are commonly[A]) more | Spiritual and Bodily Dist[)e]per._]
Passionate than others, yea than |
Her selfe in Her health, yet if God | [Note A: [Greek: Dusareston hoi
iudgeth not according to the | nosountes aporias hupo] _Eurip.
strange Effects and Symptoms of Her | Orest._