t Citie (as she professed) to |
frequent them there; yea what |
Griefe was it vnto Her (as it was |
vnto Saint _Ambrose_) to heare of |
the Death of any of Gods zealous | [Note e: _Paulin. in Vita D.
Ministers[e]? | Ambros._]
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And should I be silent, yet Her |
Oratory in her house hereby, this |
Church too (a part whereof her |
Zeale, together with her Honourable |
Husbands Loue to Gods House newly |
erected) that Closset also of Hers |
in _Truro_, yea euery place almost |
would speake aloud of her constant |
reading, hearing, meditating on the |
Word, solemne Humiliations, |
solitary conferences with her God, |
feruent prayers and eiaculations, |
which (as the sweetest incense) |
shee euer and anon sent vp to the |
Throne of Grace for the pardon of |
her sinnes, the fauour of God, the |
spirituall Good of her Dearest |
Husband, Children, and Gods Church. |
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But adde vnto all these, another | [Note: _Vnfained Resolution to
more speciall, essentiall, and | mortifie her most preuailing
superiour working of Her Godly | Sinne._]
Feare, and that was Her continuall |
Combating against all sinne, euen |
Her most commanding sin whatsoeuer |
that was[f]. For there was a time | [Note f: _Psal. 18. 23. Rom. 7.
to my knowledge, when after the | 21, 22, 23, 24._]
preaching vnto Her of the power and |
efficacie of Gods promises, and of |
Christs Death and Resurrection, for |
the mortifying and mastering of any |
bosome and beloued sinne, you might |
easily see in Her, how willingly | [Note g: _Psal. 119. 6, 8. Act.
she yeelded vnto the Sanctifying | 11. 23._]
worke of the Holy Ghost for the |
Ouer-comming of her strongest | [Note h: _Mic. 7. 18. 1 Ioh. 1.
corruptions, how heauily shee was | 9. Rom. 6. 14. Ez. 36. 25. 2
displeased with relapses into | Cor. 12. 7, 9._]
smaller offences of daily incursion |
against the generall and constant | [Note i: _Rom. 6. 4, 5, &c. Vis,
purpose[g] of her heart not to | inquam, illa Christi mortis nobis
sinne in anything; how faithfully | communicatur, vt per h[=a]c
she rested vpon those sweetest[h] | Christivim moriamur peccato, sicut
promises of God (which she | Christus p