Item genre: Memorandum

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Book of spiritual memoranda ( 1701-1709)
Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 1 (Memorandum), fols.136r-v

A reflection on the change of my condition of widowhood for a second marriage

[this rubric in margin]

O Lord forgive me if I erred

...

and the souls of thy servants and my brethren


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Book of spiritual memoranda ( 1701-1709)
Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 2 (Memorandum), fol.136v

Though I do not think I was strictly obliged yet I allowed out of my fortune as much as answered my own expense

[this rubric in margin]

How should I live who am in some measure fed and maintained as it were on holy things

...

am I not guilty of a sort of sacrilege


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 3 (Memorandum), fol.136v

Let not my sins O Lord rise up to my future condemnation

...

or cause its enemies to blaspheme


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 4 (Memorandum), fol.136v

Every one thinks it a particular agggravation to be false or ignorant

...

the number of criminals may introduce


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 5 (Memorandum), fol.137r

A commendable steadiness is

...

but stubbornness is a refusing to hear or consider, and so be capable of being convinced


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 6 (Memorandum), fol.137r

Those faults of our friends which we see not

...

but truth is necessary to all


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 8 (Memorandum), fol.137r

The sorrow we feel for our friends' faults ought to arise out of our love for God

...

shall at the day of judgement find a more favourable punishment


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 9 (Memorandum), fol.137r

A warm devotion that much mixes with the passions, must be carefully watched

...

if true grace and virtue is not in the heart


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 10 (Memorandum), fol.137v

You ask me how you shall know you have saving faith?

...

as to fear God as an enemy too strong for them


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 11 (Memorandum), fol.138r

How unreasonable and foolish is it for any to keep up anger

...

admitted into that holy place


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 12 (Memorandum), fol.138r

Overloving and depending on the creature will make it a kind of idol

...

it robs the first cause of what belongs only to him


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 13 (Memorandum), fol.138r

When I have apprehended death near me

...

our love to one another is a mark of discipleship


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 14 (Memorandum), fol.138r

As man was a willing or voluntary sinner

...

the best means to deter from what is evil


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 15 (Memorandum), fol.138v

I think that in A. Borinons Book are many true and noble thoughts, both of religion and vertue

...

through ignorance of history and a warm imagination they fall into

[this review of Antoinette Bourignon, The light of the world, London 1696 turns into a critique of Enthusiasm]


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 16 (Memorandum), fol.139v

Pleasure can't be properly the end of this life

...

so base a subjection of the mind to the body


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 17 (Memorandum), fol.139v

Prosperity has been a means by which I have done good to others

...

the other drives it back on itself


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 18 (Memorandum), fol.139v

Was change of opinion no more censored in points of divinity or politics than in other sciences

...

the best means to deter from what is evil


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 19 (Memorandum), fol.140r

The excellency and usefulness of Christian charity

...

the gay and the great keep at a distance even the knowledge of others' suffering lest their own tranquility and wealth should be disturbed by it


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 20 (Memorandum), fol.140r

The occasion of writing my rules for devotion was my one infirmity, it was put together when I was but two or three and twenty

...

and when my mind was present the coldest forms did not want heat and power

[ She is talking about Elizabeth Burnet, A Method Of Devotion or Rules for Holy and Devout Living, 1708]


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 21 (Memorandum), fol.140v

The year before I married Aug: 8: 99

[ this rubric in margin]

On thinking of a more public station, Lord

...

teach me rather to rejoice in the gifts of others than to covet them myself


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 23 (Memorandum), fol.142r

If we would advance in devotion and true knowledge

...

especially if the matter is of any moment


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 24 (Memorandum), fol.142r

Oct: 10:1697 On a sermon preached by Dr Walls on John 3:5.

...

or seek if we were not to find


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 25 (Memorandum), fol.142r

If as sincere and attentive in a principle as in mathematical ones

...

people that had the beginnings for a palace


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 26 (Memorandum), fol.143r

It is very necessary to consider often the emptiness of those things which have by the abuse of words usurped the name of pleasure

...

and then the pleasures that come with that choice may be enjoyed without regret or shame


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 27 (Memorandum), fol.143r

If your notion implies an extinguishing that breath or flame of life

...

truer thought would abate what an indulged flattery increases

[ 'Mr L' in margin ]


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 28 (Memorandum), fol.143v

It may be an overambition to grasp at more than is in our power to do though the intention or the work be good


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 29 (Memorandum), fol.143v

If a rich mine or frankery is discovered what designs of gain are immediately formed

...

to know the qualifictions that fit for or observe them who know their place


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 30 (Memorandum), fol.144r

O my God I no more doubt thy mercy than thy being

...

as far as possible suitable to thy goodness


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 31 (Memorandum), fols.144r-v

Why is not Chastity as consistent with a state of marriage as temperance is with eating

...

a sort of prostitution covered from infamy by laws


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 32 (Memorandum), fol.144v

Why should the abuse of religion, or the fancies of Enthusiastics hinder the Atheistical move into a contempt or denial of religion

...

and teaching how to conquer not gratify the passions


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 33 (Memorandum), fol.145r

The fondness we have to please others

...

in order to a most glorious prize


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 34 (Memorandum), fol.145r

All evils but sin are without us

...

so its necessities prevents much evil in sinners


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 35 (Memorandum), fol.145r

When in dispute we leave off attention to what is right

...

lead me by thy Holy Spirit into all saving truths


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 36 (Memorandum), fol.145r

Men of the world join to call zeal in religion madness

...

that are much more contrary to natural reason than the others


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 37 (Memorandum), fol.145v

Have a care of the applause and commendations that are given to easiness of temper

...

resolution, steadiness and opposition to others


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 38 (Memorandum), fol.145v

Adams sin self dependence and withdrawing from God

...

the fall showed man his dependence and miserie without it


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 39 (Memorandum), fol.145v

When we die we carry not our estate with us

...

and be cured of all their causeless distress and mistakes


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 41 (Memorandum), fol.146r

There may be too great a fondness for antiquity

...

and frequent relapses into sin


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 42 (Memorandum), fol.146r

On reading some books recomending informal piety and devotion

[ in margin Bp of Cambrayetc]

...

O let me never more depart from thee O Lord


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 44 (Memorandum), fol.146v

Why do I so eagerly wish for knowledge

...

few would be hardy enough to venture in them


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 45 (Memorandum), fol.147r

Children mind slowly by being so reproved

...

who knows and will reward as best for thee


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 46 (Memorandum), fol.147r

A strict attention to the dictates of the divine light of reason and revelation will in great measure supply the want of human learning

...

than a learned man without goodness can do


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 47 (Memorandum), fol.147r

if you call a subordinate desire no desire 'tis the same with Dr Whit

[ Mr. Norris in margin]

...

when our passions master our understanding


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 48 (Memorandum), fol.147v

The best thing we can do for another

...

but in order to make us good


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 49 (Memorandum), fol.147v

By the promise of Gods hearing prayer

...

Lord open mine eyes that I may see the wonders of thy law


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 50 (Memorandum), fol.147v

So much hope as you give sinners

...

who died to save us from our sins


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 51 (Memorandum), fol.147v

God can't cease to love his own perfection

...

who is the foundation of all holinesss in the creature


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 52 (Memorandum), fol.147v

Seek not contentment in this or that state of life

...

to improve it as to attain its proper perfection to God's glory


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 53 (Memorandum), fol.147v

Christians to whom the evil of sin is so plainly declared in Gods word

...

most of them are stumbling blocks and offenders


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 54 (Memorandum), fol.148r

Gentle and generous minds are most apt to be mislead by suffering

...

this is perfection, this is happiness, this is heaven


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 55 (Memorandum), fol.148r

O when shall God's holy word be revealed

...

O come Lord Jesus come quickly


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 56 (Memorandum), fol.148r

An act of faith in receiving the Holy Communion

...

defects of the worthy receivers


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 57 (Memorandum), fols.148r-v

Can we be jealous for our own temporal interest

...

and hope for reward in a better world


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 58 (Memorandum), fol.148v

Nov 4 1700 Try me and purify me O Love

...

he will indicate the perfections and every attribute, so be it


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 59 (Memorandum), fol.148v

If I can serve or do good to the least of God's servants

...

and its fringes useful and excellent


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 60 (Memorandum), fol.148v

In reading my first written examination when I was but 18

...

some fanciful or superstitious devotion


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 61 (Memorandum), fol.149r

This our earthly state is not properly living

...

because allayed by no fear of loss


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Item 62 (Memorandum), fols.149r-v

Dependence on God is so far from being a diminution to our happiness

...

but pleasant and in a sort divine love


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 63 (Memorandum), fol.149v

On being to hear one of the evening lectures

O wondrous blessing of religion

...

and more capable to make it happy than what it poses here


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 65 (Memorandum), fol.150r

O Lord do I ask pardon only for my self or others?

...

so I may please thee in holiness


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 67 (Memorandum), fol.150v

Aug: 15:1701 of a future state

[this rubric in margin]

O how great is this mercy?

...

the light that we perceive today on the other side of the grave


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 68 (Memorandum), fols.150v-151r

May I O Lord at the hour of death

...

may resign my soul to thy conduct and protection


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 69 (Memorandum), fol.151r

What is it I so earnestly ask

...

thou are the centre of all our desires our happiness and our end


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 70 (Memorandum), fol.151r

How many trades and employments are there to serve this life and the things of it

...

they plant the wind and gather the whirlwind


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 71 (Memorandum), fol.151r

The Church is indeed a sanctuary

...

there if it get in 'tis my own fault


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 72 (Memorandum), fol.151v

How pleasant is prayer and devotion

...

and asks what he receives


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 73 (Memorandum), fol.151v

O my Lord and Father

...

thou canst not be miserable


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 74 (Memorandum), fols.151v-152r

How careful ought we to be of our words and actions etc

...

so lacking a memory of regularity


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 75 (Memorandum), fol.152r

When I reflect on the bitterness and cup of sorrow

...

for the love of God and in obedience to him


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 76 (Memorandum), fol.152r

Oct:22:1698

[this rubric in margin]

I am not worthy of the honour or reward

...

the mind can't be constant to what it beholds so changed in its beauty


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 77 (Memorandum), fol.152r

Great virtue eclipses lesser faults for though like light it makes them more visible yet their brightness gilds them over, and makes us willing to forget and lessen them

['eclipses' is actually deleted and an illegible correction made over the top]


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 78 (Memorandum), fol.152r

Is a thing being barely lawful

...

indifference and resignation is better than choice


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 79 (Memorandum), fol.152r

Disorders in the body

...

temperament of the body


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 80 (Memorandum), fol.152r

I have sometimes thought of the inconsistency

...

the disappointment leaves a disgust and disquiet


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 81 (Memorandum), fol.152r

Tis a pleasure to serve amd be served

...

to cancel all former obligations


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 82 (Memorandum), fol.153r

when passion has disordered the mind resolve nothing till by meditation and prayer the storm is laid

...

a sort of spirituality in them the other have not


Bodleian Library: MS Rawl. D 1092 ff. 136r-156v
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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 83 (Memorandum), fols.153r-v

When a good man is much taken up with the cares

...

they are blamed as careless


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 84 (Memorandum), fol.153v

According to Maltrances principle

...

from the imperfections of our best actions


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 85 (Memorandum), fol.153v

Vengeance is mine

...

is unnatural and contrary to self-love


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 86 (Memorandum), fol.153v

The commanding power of custom is wonderful

...

make what's a debt to nature a sacrifice to God


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 86 (Memorandum), fol.154r

When I was young and more scrupulous

...

take care the latter is not the case


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 88 (Memorandum), fols.154r-156v

Some subjects of conversations with Mrs. Fyche: C. B: etc

[this rubric in margin]

To be strict to rules but not to make the rules too strict

...

and you will be as much disengaged from it as from them


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Elizabeth Burnet (Author)

Item 89 (Memorandum), fol.156v

At some recollected moments I have had my thoughts all flame and full of the love of God

...

to recall past meditations or representations as if we

[This item is unfinished]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F33
Diary, Volume 5 (1709-1711)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 6 (Memorandum, Narrative), back pastedown-back flyleaf v

Memorandum October the Eighth 1710.

My Cousin Clinton (alias Hancock) told me that five year ago, soon after she was married; stopping in the street while a coach crossed the way; an old gentleman said to her, Mrs you need not be in fear of a coach, for you shall keep one with horses before you die.

...

This I set down, that it may hereafter be seen, what comes of the matter-----

[

This is the first item in the reversed section of the manuscript.

Preceded by blank back pastedown and flyleaf r [rev].

]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F34
Diary, Volume 6 (1711-1713)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 51 (Memorandum), p.51[rev]

Memorandum.

That a little before the Great Fire in 1666. L'Estrange in a pamphlet entitled, A Memento. speaking of the city of London, said, in a kind of prophecy (but not so plain or threatening as this of the Examiner) - God grant, that city be not at last purged by fire; I mean before the general conflagration.

...

This was much taken notice of at that time; and was verified too soon after ---

[This is the entire entry.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F35
Diary, Volume 7 (1713-1716)
(Author, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 15 (Memorandum), p.[21][rev]

Memorandums

A plague in London of which died 56578. The year. 1603.

...

It is observed that Queen Anne died the very day on which, the Bill against Schism took place; August 1. 1714.

[Italics in incipit and explicit indicate marginal text.]


Hertfordshire Archives and Local Studies: D/EP F36
Miscellany (1670-1710)
(Compiler, Scribe) Sarah Cowper

Item 8 (Memorandum), fol.[59r]

Memorandum

Mr William Ramsey Minister of Pettworth alias Thistleworth married Sir Charles Sedley to Mrs Ann Askew (though his wife was then living) and christened their son Charles Ann Sedley.

...

I have had great do to convince my doctor of the legality of the matter; but I at last convinced him with a promise of a free school that is in my gift.

This I saw under Sir Charles's own hand.

[This is the entire entry. It was likely inserted later than the surrounding items, since it is in the shaky hand characteristic of Cowper's writing after 1705.]


Centre for Kentish Studies: MS UI 655 F8
Lady Anne Twysden's Prayerbook ( October-November 1638)
(Author)Lady Anne Twysden

Item 6 (Memorandum), pp. 23-26


Roger Twysden (Author)

Account of prayerbook and its compilation

These places of Scripture for the increasing of her faith

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Lord always increase that desire in me Amen Amen Roger Twysden10 Novemb[er] 1638

[ This passage gives account of Lady Anne Twysden's practice of compiling scriptural excerpts, her piety, and her death on 14th October 1638. According to this account, her son Roger asked for her scriptural meditations "long before her death".]

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