English Churchwomen of the Seventeenth CenturyJ.A. Sparks, 1846 - 127 páginas |
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affection affliction afterwards attended Barden Tower Basire battle of Newbury Bishop blessed Castle charity Christ Christian Church of England comfort communion conversation Countess daugh daughter dear death desire devo devotion died discourse divine duty Eaglescliff Earl Earl of Derby endeavoured estates excellent faith father fear Ferrar friends gave give glory God's grace gracious hand happy hath heart heaven holy honour hope humble humility husband king king's Lady letters lived Lord Lord's lordship marriage married meditations memory ment mercy mother never Nicholas Ferrar occasion peace persons piety pious poor praise pray prayers Psalms received religion Sacrament scaffold sent sermon servants servants domestic sickness Sir John Lewis Sir Thomas Leigh Skipton Castle sorrow soul spirit suffer tender Thee things Thou thought tion took trouble unto virtue VISCOUNTESS FALKLAND whilst widow wife William Blaxton words wrote
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Página viii - For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again ; neither doth God respect any person : yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from him.
Página 53 - And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.
Página 55 - Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.
Página 13 - ... excellent friend, and hugely dear to very many, especially to the best and most discerning persons ; to all that conversed with her, • and could understand her great worth and sweetness : she was of an honourable, a ni'ce, and tender reputation ; and of the pleasures of this world, which were laid before her in heaps, she took a very small and inconsiderable share, as not loving to glut herself with vanity, or take her portion of good things here below.
Página 11 - In all her religion, and in all her actions of relation towards God, she had a strange evenness and untroubled passage, sliding toward her ocean of God and of infinity, with a certain and silent motion.
Página 10 - I have seen a female religion that wholly dwelt upon the face and tongue; that like a wanton and an undressed tree spends all its juice in suckers and irregular branches, in leaves and gum, and after all such goodly outsides you should never eat an apple, or be delighted with the beauties or the perfumes of a hopeful blossom.
Página 92 - His good time, restoring health and comfort to my family : " teach me so to number my days, that I may apply my heart to wisdom...
Página 11 - ... neighbour bottom ; and after all its talking and bragged motion, it paid to its common audit no more than the revenues of a little cloud, or a contemptible vessel : so have I sometimes compared the issues of her religion to the solemnities and famed outsides of another's piety.
Página 90 - ... and coffin to be made, and brought to her bed-side, and there to remain in her view, as a constant memento of her approaching fate, and to keep her mind fixed on proper contemplations. She died May 24, 1731, in the 63d year of her age, and was buried at Chelsea.
Página 11 - For though she had the greatest judgment, and the greatest experience of things and persons, that [ ever yet knew in a person of her youth, and sex, and circumstances ; yet, as if she knew nothing of it, she had the meanest opinion of herself; and, like a fair taper, when she shined to all the room, yet round about her...