Vm fltignm’g $?ogre$. y
they are all gone on Pilgrimage, both the good
Woman ard her four Coys. And being we are,
as I perceive, going fome confiderab’e Way to¬
gether, I will give you an Account of the whole
Matter.
This Chrijlitwa (for that was her Name,) from the
Day that fhe with£!,Horen betook themfelves.
to a r:!grlm's Life, after her Husbaad was gone
over the River, aid fhe could hear of him
no more, her Thoughts began to work i Petr. p. 175.
in her Mind Firfi, for that ihe had loft
her Husband, and for that the loving Bond of that
Relation was utterly broken betwixt them. For you
know faid he to me, Nature can do no lefs but en¬
tertain the living with many a heavy Cogitation in
the Remembrance of the Lofs of loving Relations.
This therefore of her Husband did coft-
her many a Tear. But this was not all, Mark this, you
for Chriftiana did alfo begin to coniider that are churl-
with herfelf, Whether her unbecom- ijhtoyjurgoocl¬
ing Behaviour towards her Husband Iy Relations.
I was not one Caufe that Ihe faw him no
| more; and that in fuch fort he was taken away from
her. And upon this came into her Mind by Swarms, ail
her unkind, unnatural, and ungodly Carriage to her
dear Friend ; which alfo clogg’d her Confcience, and
did load her with Guilt. She was moreover much
broken with ^calling to Remembrance the reftlefs
Goans, the brinilh Tears, and felf bemoaning of her
Husband, and how Hie did harden her Heart againft
all his Entreaties, and loving Perfualions (of her and
her Sons) to go with him ; yea, there was not any
thing that Chriflian either faid to her, or did before
ber, all the while that his Burden did hang on his Back,
but it returned upon her like a Flash
of Lightning, and rent the Caul of her 1 Par, a, 3.
Heart in funder $ efpecially that bit-