Contents

Contents

CONTENTS

Prologue: To the Reader

PART ONE

Great Gladness: Margaret with Richard

Two Puritans

PART TWO

Great Goodness: Richard Recalls Margaret

To the Reader

1 Of Her Parentage and the Occasion of Our Acquaintance

2 Of Her Conversion, Sickness, and Recovery

3 Of the Workings of Her Soul In and After This Sickness

4 Some Parcels of Counsel for Her Deliverance from This Distressed Case, Which I Find Reserved by Her for Her Use

5 Her Temper, Occasioning These Troubles of Mind

6 Of Our Marriage and Our Habitations

7 Of Her Exceeding Desires to Do Good

8 Of Her Mental Qualifications and Her Infirmities

9 Of Her Bodily Infirmities and Her Death

10 Some Uses Proposed to the Reader from This History, as the Reasons Why I Wrote It

Appendix: Two Poems from Poetical Fragments (1681)

PART THREE

Great Sadness: Richard Without Margaret

The Grieving Process

Epilogue: To the Reader, Once More

Notes

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