Christian ethics -- Fiction; Christian fiction; Conduct of life -- Fiction
Then they all went down; but her {151d} Darling, to wit, the child that
she had most love for, because it followed her ways. So she addressed
her self to that. Come to me, said she, my sweet child, thou art the
child of my joy: I have lived to see thee a Servant of God; thou shalt
have eternal life. I, my sweet heart, shall goe before, and thou shalt
follow after; if thou shalt hold the beginning of thy confidence
stedfast to the end. {152a} When I am gone, do thou still remember my
words, love thy Bible, follow my Ministers, deny ungodliness still, and
if troublous times shall come, set an higher price upon Christ, his
Word and Wayes, and the testimony of a good conscience, than upon all
the world besides. Carry it kindly and dutifully to thy Father, but
choose none of his ways. If thou mayest, goe to service, choose that,
rather than to stay at home; but then be sure to choose a service where
thou mayest be helped forwards in the way to heaven; and that thou
mayest have such a service, speak to my Minister, he will help thee, if
possible, to such an one.
I would have thee also, my dear child, to love thy Brothers and
Sisters, but learn none of their naughty tricks. Have no fellowship
with the unfruitfull works of darkness, but rather reprove them. {152b}
Thou hast Grace, they have none: do thou therefore beautifie the way
of salvation before their eyes, by a godly life, and conformable
conversation to the revealed will of God, that thy Brothers and Sisters
may see and be the more pleased with the good wayes of the Lord.
If thou shalt live to marry, take heed of being served as I was; that
is, of being beguiled with fair words, and the flatteries of a lying
tongue. But first be sure of godliness. Yea, as sure as it is possible
for one to be in this world: trust not thine own eyes, nor thine own
Judgment; I mean as to that persons godliness that thou art invited to
marry. Ask counsel of good men, and do nothing therein, if he lives,
without my Ministers advice. I have also my self desired him to look
after thee. Thus she talked to her children, and gave them counsel, and
after she had talked to this a little longer, she kiss’d it, and bid it
go down.
Well, in short, her time drew on, and the day that she must die. So she
{152c} died with a soul full of Grace, an heart full of comfort, and by
her death ended a life full of trouble. Her husband made a Funerall for
her, perhaps because he was glad he was rid of her, but we will leave
that to be manifest at Judgment.
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