Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women

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: JANE, QUEEN OF NAVARRE. Jane of Albert, the subject of our Memoirs, was daughter to Henry the Second, King of Navarre, and Margaret of Orleans t, sister to Francis, the first Navarre was a small kingdom south of France, near the Pyre- nean mountains. It is now a part of France itself. t The mother of the...
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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: JANE, QUEEN OF NAVARRE. Jane of Albert, the subject of our Memoirs, was daughter to Henry the Second, King of Navarre, and Margaret of Orleans t, sister to Francis, the first Navarre was a small kingdom south of France, near the Pyre- nean mountains. It is now a part of France itself. t The mother of the subject of our Memoirs bore a very eminent character, being distinguished for her piety, virtue, and fine understanding. Perhaps it may not be unacceptable to our readers, as it will not be entirely foreign to our work, to recite the following account of a very edifying and pleasing event in which she had her share, in a translation from the elegant Witsius. Vid. Miscel. Sacr. vol. ii. p. 185. As an instance, says our excellent author, of a placid and pleasant death, James Faber Stapulensis, a came famous in France among the revivers of evangelical truth and sound learning, deserves to be recorded. He, in a very advanced ' age, flying from the violence of the persecutiou with which the ' professors of the Reformed Religion were oppressed in France, withdrew himself to the country of the Queen of Navarre, the magnanimous and wise protectress of the protestant cause ' On a certain day the queen sent and invited him to dine with ' her, gathering a number of learned and pious men, with whose conversation she was wonderfully delighted, to be guests with him. While the rest of the company, with a great deal of cheer- fulness, enjoyed their meal, Faber discovered many signs of a deep sorrow. The queen asked the reason; to which he u replied, ' How can I, O queen be cheerful myself, or contribute to the cheerfulness of others, who am the most wicked creature upon the face of the earth ' But what, ' said she, ' my friend, can that wickedness be whi...