Memoirs

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A RECORD THE SUFFERINGS OF THE IMPRISONED COUNTESS LEONORA CHRISTINA. PREFACE. TO MY CHILDREN. Beloved Children, I may indeed say with Job, ' Oh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea.' My sufferings are...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A RECORD THE SUFFERINGS OF THE IMPRISONED COUNTESS LEONORA CHRISTINA. PREFACE. TO MY CHILDREN. Beloved Children, I may indeed say with Job, ' Oh, that my grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea.' My sufferings are indeed great and many; they are heavy and innumerable. My mind has long been uncertain with regard to this history of my sufferings, as I could not decide whether I ought not rather to endeavour to forget them than to bear them in memory. At length, however, certain reasons have induced me, not only to preserve my sorrow in my own memory, but to compose a record of it, and to direct it to you, my dear children.1 The first of these reasons is the remembrance of the omnipotence of God; for I cannot recall to mind my sorrow and grief, my fears and distresses, without at the same time remembering the almighty power of God, who in all my sufferings, my misery, my affliction, and anxiety, has been my strength and help, my consolation and assistance; for never has God laid a burden upon me, without at the same time giving me strength in proportion, so that the burden, though ithas weighed me down and heavily oppressed me, has not overwhelmed me and crushed me; for which I praise and extol through eternity the almighty power of the incomprehensible God. 1 In the margin is added: ' As I now hope that what I write may come into your hands, my captivity during the last three years also having been much lightened.' I wish, therefore, not alone to record my troubles and to thank God for His gracious support in all the misfortunes that have befallen me, but also to declare to you, my dear children, God's goodness to me, that you may not only admire with me the inconcei...