CHAPTER V.
 

THE BUILDING OF ST. ANTONY'S, AND  MANY  TRYALLS  OF HER PAT^tlNCK
SOON AFTER SHEE  REMOVED THETHER.
 

T. PAUL teaches that tribulation generates
patience ; patience, probation; probation,
hope; hope does not confound, because
charity enlarges the heart, etc. A man
may rightly affirm that patience, hope,
and charity, were the scenes acted uppon the theatre
of her whole life, or three sisters which went along
with her, sometimes one, sometimes another leading
her by the h^d, thro' the black desert of temporall
afflictions. ■ jDivers probations and tryalls ensued
after her return from IJsworth to Heton. When shee
had again made her house fitt for the service of God,
and use of her children. Sir Ralph Lawson, desirous
to sell it, which he could not doe without her con¬
sent, moves her to condescend to the exigency of
his occasions, preferring in lieu of it a place more
advantagious for her designs called St. Antony's.
Observe, I beseech, the motions of the three sisters.
Approbation was offer'd in moving her to exchange a
convenient house and reasonable good seat, for I con¬
fess a seat incomparably more pleasant, but no house,
unless shee would erect one att her own charges, for