A small good this might appear to me, did I not
to my grief know numberless persons, who through some horrible and
wide-spreading contagion of sin, not only disclose to persons mutually
angered things said in anger, but add withal things never spoken,
whereas to humane humanity, it ought to seem a light thing not to
toment or increase ill will by ill words, unless one study withal by
good words to quench it. Such was she, Thyself, her most inward
Instructor, teaching her in the school of the heart.
Finally, her own husband, towards the very end of his earthly
life, did she gain unto Thee; nor had she to complain of that in him
as a believer, which before he was a believer she had borne from
him. She was also the servant of Thy servants; whosoever of them
knew her, did in her much praise and honour and love Thee; for that
through the witness of the fruits of a holy conversation they
perceived Thy presence in her heart. For she had been the wife of
one man, had requited her parents, had govemed her house piously,
was well reported of for good works, had brought up children, so often
travailing in birth of them, as she saw them swerving from Thee.
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