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LIFE OF LADY GUION,

VOLUME SECOND.

LIFE OF LADY GUION,

WRITTEN IN FRENCH, BY HERSELF,

NOW ABRIDGED,

AND TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH.

EXHIBITING

Her eminent Piety, Charity, Meekness, Resignation,
Fortitude and Stability; her Labours, Travels,
Sufferings and Services, for the Conversion of
Souls to GOD; and her great Success,
in some Places, in that best of all
Employments on the Earth.

TO WHICH ARE ADDED,

ACCOUNTS Of the liveS OF WORTHY PERSONS,

WHOSE MEMORIES WERE DEAR TO LADY GUION.

IN TWO VOLUMES.--VOL. II.

From an English Edition, published at Bristol :

WITH A FEW ABRIDGMENTS, ETC.

NEW-BEDFORD :

PRINTED BY ABRAHAM SHEARMAN, JUN.

ANDOVER-HARVARD THEOLOGICAL LIBRARY

JUN 6 1912

ANDOVER

THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY

963,323

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LIFE OF LADY GUION.

PART SECOND.

CHAPTER XXII.

A FOOR girl of very great simplicity, who

earned her livelihood by her labour, and was inwardly favoured of the Lord, came all sorrowful to me, and said, "Oh my mother, what strange things have I seen!" I asked her what they were. "Alas, said she, I have scen you like a lamb in the midst of a vast herd of furious wolves. I have seen a frightful collection of people of all robes, of every age, sex and condition, armed with instruments of war, all eager for your instant destruction. You let them alone without stirring, or being surprised, and without offering any way to defend yourself. I looked on all sides to see whether any one would come to assist and defend you; but I saw not one." Some days after, those, who through envy were making private batteries against me, broke forth. Libels began to spread. Envious people wrote against me, without knowing me. They said, "I was a sorceress, that it was by a magic power that I attracted souls, that every thing in me was diabolical; that if I did some charities, it was because I coined, and put off false money," with many other gross accusations equally false and groundless.

VOL. II.

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