any times weeping when she was
alone.... She said, 'If this distemper do not abate, I must die,
but my soul shall go to Eternal Joy, Eternal, Eternal and
Everlasting Life and Peace with my God for ever: Oh! praises,
praises to Thy Majesty, Oh, my God! who helpeth me to go through
with patience, what I am to endure.' Then after some time she
said. 'Friends, we must all go hence one after another, and they
that live the longest know and endure the greatest sorrow:
therefore, O Lord, if it be Thy will, take me to Thyself, that
my soul may rest in peace with Thee, and not any one to see me
here any more. Oh! praises, praises be unto Thy holy Name for
ever in Thy will being done with me, to take me to Thyself,
where I shall be in heavenly joy, yea, in heavenly joy for ever
and for evermore.'...

And many times would she be praying to the Lord day and night,
'O Lord, lay no more upon me, than Thou givest me strength to
bear, and go through with patience, that Thy will may be done,
that Thy will may be done' (many times together). 'Oh! help me,
help me, O my God! that I may praise Thy holy Name for ever.'

And so continued, very often praising the Name of the Lord with
joyful sounds, and singing high praises to His holy Name for
ever and for evermore; she being much spent with lifting up her
voice in high praises to God, through fervency of spirit, and
her body being weak, her Grandfather went into the room, and
desired her to be as still as possibly she could, and keep her
mind inward, and stayed upon the Lord, and see if she could have
a little rest and sleep: she answered, 'Dear Grandfather, I
shall die, and I cannot but praise the Name of the Lord whilst I
have a being; I do not know what to do to praise His Name enough
whilst I live; but whilst there is life there is hope; but I do
believe it is better for me to die than live.'

And so continued speaking of the goodness of the Lord from day
to day; which caused many tears to fall from the eyes of them
that heard her. Her Grandfather coming to her, asked her how she
did? She said to him and to her Mother, 'I have had no rest this
night nor to-day; I did not know but I should have died this
night, but very hardly I tugged through it; but I shall die
to-day, and a grave shall be made, and my body put into a hole,
and my s