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 24 A^me Bj^adJlreeV s Works.

neffes and weaknefles that I haue paffed thro: to the end that, if you meet with the like, yov may haue recourfe to the fame God who hath heard and deli- uered me, and will doe the like for yov if you trvft in him; And, when he fhall deliuer yov out of diftrelTe, forget not to giue him thankes, but to walk more clofely with him then before. This is the delire of vour Loving mother, A. B.

��. In the fame book were vpon fpeciall occalions the Poems, &c., which follow added.

Vpon my Son Samtiel his goeing for E^igland^ Novem.

6, 1657.*

'TnHOU mighty God of Sea and Land,

•^ I here refigne into thy hand The Son of Pra3^ers, of vowes, of teares, The child I ftay'd for many 3^eares.f Thou heard'ft me then, and gav'ft him me; Hear me again, I giue him Thee. He's mine, but more, O Lord, thine own, For fure thy Grace on him is fliown. No freind I haue like Thee to truft, For mortall helpes are brittle Dvft.


 * He was her eldest child. See Introduiftion. f See page 5.

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