e to her and asked her why she wept so exceedingly? Her mother
answered that she had cause enough to weep, because her father was dead.
"No, dear mother," said the child, "you have no cause to weep so much,
for God is a good God still."

5. She was a dear lover of faithful ministers. One time after she had
been hearing Mr. Whitaker, she said, "I love that man dearly for the
sweet words he speaks concerning Christ."

6. Her book was her delight; and many times she was so strangely
affected in reading the Scriptures, that she burst out into tears, and
would hardly be pacified: so greatly was she taken with Christ's
sufferings, the zeal of God's servants, and the danger of a natural
state.

7. She often complained of the corruption of her nature, of the hardness
of her heart, that she could repent no more, and be no more humble and
grieved for her sins against a good God; and when she thus complained,
it was with abundance of tears.

8. She was very conscientious in keeping the Sabbath, spending the whole
time in reading or praying, learning her catechism, or teaching her
brothers and sisters. One time when she was left at home on the Lord's
day, she got some other little children together, with her brothers and
sisters, and told them that it was the Lord's day, and they ought to
remember it to keep it holy. She then told them it was to be spent in
religious exercises all the day, except so much as was taken up in the
works of necessity and mercy: then she prayed with them, and among other
things begged that the Lord would give grace and wisdom to them, (little
children,) that they might know how to serve him.

9. At another time a near relation of hers being in some straits, made
some complaint, to whom she said, "I have heard Mr. Garter say, 'A man
may go to heaven without a penny in his purse, but not without grace in
his heart.'"

10. She had an extraordinary love to the people of God: and when she saw
any who she thought feared the Lord, her heart would even leap for joy.

11. When she was between eleven and twelve years old, she sickened of
the plague, in which she behaved with admirable patience and sweetness,
and did what she could with Scripture arguments to support and encourage
her relations to part with her, who was going to glory, and to prepare
themselves to meet her in a blessed eternity.

12. She was not many days sick before she was marked with the complaint
which she first saw herself, and was gr