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Saint Stevens last will and testament A funeral sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…
Saint Stevens last will and testament A funeral sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59. preached at the enterrement of the remains of Mris Joyce Featly. Together with the testimony then given unto her by Tho. Gataker, B. of D. and rector of Rotherhith.Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59. preached at the enterrement of the remaines of Mris Joice Featly. Together with the testimonie then given unto her by Tho. Gataker, B. of D. and rector of Rotherhith.
London: printed by Elizabeth for Nicolas Bourne, 1638
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
In her last and fatal sickness, her carriage was such, that her •ietie and her patience might have seemed to contend for the superiority, but that they were so sweetly combined together, that the one was expressed and appeared in the other. Nor is it to be marvelled, if it were so with her; for she freely professed to some of those that resorted to her, That she had always been careful to lay up in store for the great day of her dissolution. Patience she still prayed for, frequently using that sweet and pious saying of S. Augustine; tLord, give what thou commandest, and command what thou pleasest. And patience she practised. For it is credibly reported by those that were most and nearest about her, that albeit her pains and torments were very great and grievous, yet no one idle word, or speech savouring of impatience, was ever heard to fall from her. And, when those that attended her, offered sometime to have removed her for her ease, (and pain, we know, maketh persons usually desirous of ⟨p. 31⟩oft removal) she refused it, saying, That she should shortly be removed; to a better place and state, she meant.
In her last and fatall sicknesse, her cariage was such, that her •ietie and her patience might have seemed to contend for the superioritie, but that they were so sweetly combined together, that the one was expressed and appeared in the other. Nor is it to be marvelled, if it were so with her; for she freely professed to some of those that resorted to her, That she had alwayes beene carefull to lay up in store for the great day of her dissolution. Patience she still prayed for, frequently using that sweet and pious saying of S. Augustine; tLord, give what thou commandest, and command what thou pleasesl. And patience she practised. For it is credibly reported by those that were most and neerest about her, that albeit her paines and torments were very great and grievous, yet no one idle word, or speech savouring of impatience, was ever heard to fall from her. And, when those that attended her, offred sometime to have removed her for her ease, (and paine, we know, maketh persons usually desirous of ⟨p. 31⟩