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4 HIS child war under a diſeale of body from ſixth year of her age, which gradually conſum the moiſture and ſtrength of it, till at the ſovere pleaſure of God; it put a period to her life in  preſent world. She was of a wiſe and acute natu judgment, which, on occaſions, ſhe gave evidence by her witty and pertinent ſayings; but moſt merable in her piety towards God; which, though,  ſome times it ſuffered decay and abatement, throu the prevalency of the old man, or prevailing of ruption: yet, at other times, when the ſpirit of  returned again, appeared in her after as remarka and ſignal a manner as a perſon of that age was pable of.A great mean of her bleſſed temper  ſubordination to the eternal purpoſe of free gra we may warrantably judge was her education by ligious example and counſel, whereby ſhe was m more and more to ſee the vanity of the world,  abandon the love of it.

About fourteen months before her death, ſhe under great fear and dread of the wrath of God,  continued five or ſix weeks in that caſe: then o certain night, about eleven of the clock, ſhe call on a perſon, whoſe name I forbear to mention,  wat beſide her in the room, and aſked who was  the room? The perſon anſwered, there is none me.—If none elſe be there, ſaid he again, I muſt  you this has been a ſtrange day to me—Why ſo,  the other?—She anſwered, It has been a day of m doubts and fears; but I tell you good news,  Lord hath delivered me out of them all, and I