So
she held on her discourse: 'Children,' said she, 'I am going from
you. I am going to Jesus Christ; and with him there is neither
sorrow nor sighing, nor pain nor tears, nor death: thither would I
have you go also; but I can neither carry you nor fetch you thither.
But if you shall turn from your sins to God, and shall beg mercy at
his hands by Jesus Christ, you shall follow me, and shall, when you
die, come to the place where I am going, that blessed place of rest;
and then we shall be for ever together, beholding the face of our
Redeemer, to our mutual and eternal joy.' So she bade them remember
the words of a dying mother when she was cold in her grave, and
themselves were hot in their sins, if perhaps her words might put a
check to their vice, and they might remember and turn to God.
"Then they all went down but her darling, to wit, the child that she
had most love for, because it followed her ways. So she addressed
herself to that: 'Come to me,' said she, 'my sweet child, thou art
the child of my joy; I have lived to see thee a servant of God; thou
shalt have eternal life. I, my sweetheart, shall go before, and thou
shalt follow after, if thou shalt hold the beginning of thy
confidence steadfast to the end. When I am gone, do thou still
remember my words.
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