CHAPTER Vr.
 

WER STUDY t)F PERFECTION FOR AS MUCH AS CONCEARNS THE INTERNALL,

OR CONTEMPLATIVE WAV.
 

T fell to my lott to bring up the teare in this
catastrophe ; and the lott more happy for
that it light on mee by order of holy obedi¬
ence : in which task or burden, over heavy
I confess for my shoulders, God sent a second
comfort, by the holy prayers of her deputed ghostly
father Mr. John Robinson, a designed martyr then in
Newgate, and Mr. Henry Morse in the same prison,
afterwards a real witness of the true faith by shedding
his blood att London, y who, for her many deserts to
them, were sedulous intercessours to almighty God for
her, and her family, whereof I was now an unworthy
member. And truly I stood in need uppon my entering
to this charge of such assistance, meeting att first
with a greater difficulty than I encountered in all the
subsequent process.
 

7/ The mention of the death of father Henry Morse fixes the date
of this memoir as after 1645, when that father suflTered at Tyburn,
and in another place the writer speaks of his fourteen years silence,
which, reckoning from 1632, the year of Mrs. Dorothy Lawson's
death, will bring it up to 1646.