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<P>A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL Of the Mo&s;t Honourable ROSE, Lady Marchione&s;s OF ANTRIM At <HI>CARICKFERGUS,</HI> the 4th of <HI>July,</HI> 1695</P>
<P>By <HI>Henry Le&s;lie,</HI> D. D. Archdeacon of <HI>Downe.</HI></P>
<P><HI>D&V;BLIN,</HI> Printed for <HI>Matthew Gunne,</HI> at the <HI>Bible</HI> &amp; <HI>Crown</HI> near <HI>E&s;&s;ex-Gate.</HI> 1695.</P>
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<HEAD>A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of, <HI>&amp;c.</HI></HEAD>
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<Q><BIBL>Acts <HI>9.36, 37,</HI></BIBL>
<P>This Woman was full of Good Works, and Alms-deeds which &s;he did,&mdash;And it came to pa&s;s in tho&s;e days, that &s;he was &s;ick, and died.</P></Q>
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<P>VVE read in &s;everal Authors of famous and &s;umptuous Monuments erected to perpetuate the Memory of mortal men, they vainly believing their names would thereby continue &s;o long as the cement could hold the &s;tones together: Some we find, with <HI>Cardan,</HI> only de&s;ired that their Names might be known, without knowing either what they were, or how they lived: Others, with <HI>Hero|&s;tratus,</HI> would be remembred, tho it were for evil, for burn|ing a Temple; but mo&s;t de&s;ired that their good Names might flouri&s;h to all po&s;terity, and that their Bodies, by &s;pi|ces, and other ingredients, might be pre&s;erved &s;weet and uncorrupted, till the return of their Souls to their ancient receptacles. For the&s;e ends were the <HI>Egyptian Pyramids,</HI> the <HI>Arches, Obelisks</HI> and <HI>Mau&s;oleums</HI> of the Ancients built &s;o va&s;t
<PB N="2" REF="3"> and lofty, that not only the Revenues of Kingdoms, but the whole purcha&s;s-money of Nations have been expended on them; to that height and greatne&s;s were they erected, that they were accounted among the wonders of the World: but notwith&s;tanding this, their de&s;igns were fru&s;trated, they all proved but the feeding of empty wind; <HI>Vanity of vanities</HI> (&s;aith the Preacher) <HI>all is vanity;</HI> what Time or Tyrants have &s;pared of the&s;e Fabricks, do yet remain; but whom they do contain, or who the Authors of 'em were, is now a que&s;tion not to be re&s;olved: all that we know of 'em is, that they are made merchandize of without di&s;tinction, and the old <HI>Pharaohs</HI> and <HI>Ptolomies</HI> perhaps are now promi&s;|cuou&s;ly &s;old, with the bodys of meaner per&s;ons, for <HI>Mummy</HI> by our Druggi&s;ts and Apothecaries.</P>
<P>The&s;e were the fal&s;e &amp; mi&s;taken mea&s;ures which the &s;tran|gers <HI>to the I&s;rael of God</HI> took to perpetuate their Memories, pur&s;uing the vain methods laid down by the early Builders at <HI>Babel: Go to, let us build us a City and a Tower, who&s;e top may reach unto Heaven, and let us make us a name, Gen.</HI> 11.4. But confu&s;ion and di&s;appointment were the effects of both, notwith&s;tanding the&s;e mighty endeavors, in <HI>Solomon</HI>'s phra&s;e, <HI>The name of the wicked &s;hall rot, Prov.</HI> 10.7. But there is a way <HI>to be for a ever known,</HI> the other part of the &s;ame proverb tells us, <HI>the memory of the ju&s;t is Ble&s;&s;ed,</HI> ble&s;&s;ed with content and &s;atisfaction in this Life, with un&s;peakable joys in the World to come, and leaves an undying fame be|hind it, vertue, as tis it's own reward, <HI>vaunteth not its &s;elf, is not puffed up,</HI> yet it cannot lye hid, nor be &s;uppre&s;&s;ed, immor|tal Glory is it's &s;hadow, always keeps it company unknown unto it's &s;elf, and even when 'tis declining from our hemi&s;|phere, it then ca&s;ts the large&s;t &s;hadow, and is ri&s;ing to ano|ther.</P>
<P>A good name is <HI>better than precious Oyntment,</HI> and <HI>rather to be cho&s;en than great Riches</HI> (&s;aith the Wi&s;e man) and how
<PB N="5" REF="3"> is this to be acquired? only by humility and <HI>the fear of the Lord, Prov.</HI> 22, 1, 4. 'twas to faithful and good <HI>Abraham</HI> that God promi&s;ed to make his <HI>name great Gen.</HI> 12, 2. 'twas to his peculiar people when they &s;hould keep his commandments that he promi&s;ed to make then <HI>high above all Nations in prai&s;e, and in name, and in honour, Deut.</HI> 26, 18, 19. 'Twas to the man who ruled his ways according to Gods own heart, that he &s;aid he had made him <HI>a great name in the Earth, and had e&s;tabli&s;hed his Kingdom for ever,</HI> 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 7, 9, 16. and the &s;ame <HI>David</HI> an&s;wereth his own Que&s;tion, <HI>Lord, who &s;hall dwell in thy Tabernacle, or who &s;hall re&s;t upon thy Holy hill? even he that leadeth an uncorrupt Life, and doth the thing which is right, P&s;.</HI> 15, 1, 2. The&s;e are the means to live for ever, for thus &s;aith the Lord <HI>unto tho&s;e that keep my Sabbaths, and chu&s;e the things that plea&s;e me, I will give them an Everla&s;ting name that &s;hall not be cut off, I&s;a.</HI> 56, 4, 5. The Pious and Charitable works of God's Servants do leave a &s;avour behind them, and a &s;weet perfume, which are not to be blown away by wind, nor worn by weather. <HI>Verily I &s;ay unto you,</HI> (&s;aith our Saviour of the Woman who annointed him for his Burial) <HI>where&s;oever this Go&s;pel &s;hall be Preached in the whole World, there &s;hall al&s;o this that this Woman hath done be told for a memorial of her, Mat.</HI> 26, 13. Where&s;oever <HI>the Acts of the Apo&s;tles</HI> &s;hall be read, there &s;hall the Good Works and Alms-deeds of <HI>Tabitha</HI> be &s;poke off, and in our generations, where|ever Piety, Charity, Sobriety and Wi&s;dom, are di&s;cour&s;ed of, then let the memory be precious of this Excellent and Noble Per&s;onage, who&s;e Corps lye here before us, and to Celebrate who&s;e ob&s;equies is the occa&s;ion of this Solemn meeting, for &s;he al&s;o <HI>was a Woman full of good Works and Alms-deeds which &s;he did, but it came to pa&s;s in the&s;e days, that &s;he was Sick and dyed.</HI></P>
<P>I &s;hall not take up your time in &s;peaking much of this good Di&s;ciple of the Lord, mentioned in the Text, &s;he is
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<PB N="6" REF="5"> de&s;cribed unto us by the place of her abode, by her name, and by her good works; the place <HI>Joppa,</HI> a Maritime Town on the Coa&s;t of <HI>Judea,</HI> one of the fir&s;t walks of the Apo&s;tles after they had received Commi&s;&s;ion from on high <HI>to teach all Nations,</HI> and to be witne&s;&s;es unto our Saviour to the utter|mo&s;t parts of the Earth; her name <HI>Tabitha,</HI> which by inter|pretation is called <HI>Dorcas</HI> a Greek word, which in Engli&s;h &s;ignifies a Doe, from <HI>derk&eacute;in,</HI> to behold, becau&s;e of the Ex|cellency and quickne&s;s of &s;ight, which is attributed to that Creeature; and it appears that &s;he was very per&s;picacious, quick-&s;ighted and apprehen&s;ive in her belief of Chri&s;tianity and Knowledge of Divine things, being one of the earlie&s;t Di&s;ciples of St. <HI>Peter</HI> and the other Apo&s;tles; Her good works mentioned are &s;uch as are proper to, and be&s;peak her a Woman of Riches, Quality, and good Fortune, as appears al&s;o by the great concern which was &s;hewed for her at her Death, St. <HI>Peter</HI> the great Apo&s;tle was immediately &s;ent for, <HI>and he aro&s;e and went with the me&s;senger, and when he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber</HI> (where &s;he lay in &s;tate) tho without the pageantry of Heralds and E&s;cutcheons, yet with the more glorious En&s;igns of her Vertue &amp; Charity; <HI>the Widows &s;tood by weeping, and &s;hewing the Coats and Garments which Dorcas made while &s;he was with them, Acts</HI> 9, 39. Thus was &s;he a Woman <HI>full of good works and Alms-deeds which &s;he did, and it came to pa&s;s in tho&s;e days, that &s;he was &s;ick and dyed.</HI></P>
<P>In di&s;cour&s;ing of the&s;e words, I &s;hall begin with the latter part of them, <HI>and it came to pa&s;s that &s;he was &s;ick and dyed,</HI> and from thence &s;hall &s;hew you <HI>what death is;</HI> 2dly, Since death is a debt which all men owe to Nature, &s;ince the death of the Body is but an entrance to another &s;tate of everla&s;ting happi|ne&s;s or mi&s;ery, after this Life we mu&s;t all appear before the tribunal of a ju&s;t Judg, and give <HI>an account of our own actions, whether they have been good, or whether they have been evil,</HI> I &s;hall from thence &s;hew you, <HI>that the be&s;t way to prepare for this
<PB N="7" REF="5"> Death and Judgment, is by a good Life here;</HI> that is, by being <HI>full of good works, and Alms-deeds;</HI> And la&s;tly, I &s;hall make <HI>the application to this mournful object</HI> here before us, and &s;hew that this noble Lady was this woman <HI>full of good works and Alms-deeds. And it came to pa&s;s in tho&s;e days, that &s;he was &s;ick, and died.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t then, <HI>What Death is;</HI> I &s;hall not trouble you with making an exact logical definition of it, nor puzzel my &s;elf and you with nice and philo&s;ophical enquiries into the na|ture of it; but as mo&s;t proper for your In&s;truction at pre|&s;ent, &s;hall lay before you the <HI>cau&s;es of it,</HI> and &s;hew &s;ome of the <HI>effects of it</HI> which are mo&s;t u&s;eful for the knowledge of all men. Fir&s;t then God is the <HI>cau&s;e</HI> efficient, and &s;in the formal <HI>cau&s;e</HI> of Death in man, for tho we are bound to believe that our fir&s;t Parents were created in a State of Innocence, and therefore of immortality, had they continued obedient to the commands of God, yet was that Immortality not Natural, but Artificial, their Bodies were made of the &s;ame Corrupti|ble matter that ours are, <HI>du&s;t of the Earth,</HI> and there was the &s;ame mixture in them of heat &amp; cold, of dryne&s;s &amp; moi&s;ture, which naturally tends to corruption, yet God was plea&s;ed to provide a &s;upernatural Remedy, the Tree of Life was to be to them a continual never dying medicine, to pre&s;erve them always in life and health, while they pre&s;erved them&s;elves in obedience to the Condition on which that Ble&s;&s;iing was pro|mi&s;ed, but they becoming di&s;obedient, forfeited their lives, and &s;o brought upon them&s;elves and their po&s;terity the Exe|cution of Gods mo&s;t ju&s;t &s;entence, <HI>in the day thou eate&s;t there|of thou &s;halt &s;urely dye,</HI> that is, become mortal; here then is the cau&s;e of death, by the &s;in of <HI>Adam</HI> we are all reduced to the Laws of our own Nature, and mu&s;t &s;ay with <HI>Joab's</HI> wi&s;e Woman, 2 <HI>Sam.</HI> 14, 14. <HI>we must needs dye, and are as water &s;pilt on the ground, by one man &s;in entred into the World, and Death by &s;in, Rom.</HI> 5, 12.</P>
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<P><HI>Death</HI> then is nothing el&s;e but the privation or rece&s;&s;ion of life, for &s;ince life con&s;i&s;ts in the union of the &s;oul to the bo|dy, from whence as from the fountain, proceed motion, &s;en&s;ation and all our vital actions, death mu&s;t formally con|&s;i&s;t in the actual &s;eparation of the the &s;oul from the body; <HI>And the Lord God formed man of the du&s;t of the ground, and breathed into his No&s;trils the breath of Life, and man became a living &s;oul, Gen.</HI> 2.7. when then God plea&s;eth to &s;top that breath, and to withdraw his enlivening power, then does man dye, the di&s;&s;olution is then made, and the &s;eparation of the &s;pirit from the body, which when they were joyned to|gether made one living per&s;on; this death with the fore|runners of it, is mo&s;t elegantly de&s;cribed by the wi&s;e <HI>Preacher</HI> in his la&s;t <HI>Chap.</HI> of <HI>Eccle&s;ia&s;tes;</HI> He chargeth us to <HI>remember our Creator in the days of our youth, while the evil days come not, in the days when the keepers of the hou&s;e &s;hall tremble, and the &s;trong men &s;hall bow them&s;elves, and the grinders cea&s;e, becau&s;e they are few, and tho&s;e that look out at the Windows be darkned, and the doors &s;hall be &s;hut in the streets, and all the Daughters of Mu&s;ick &s;hall be brought low, and fear &s;hall be in the way, becau&s;e man goeth to his long home, and the Mourners go about the &s;treets, or ever the &s;ilver Cord be loo&s;ed, or the golden Boul be broken, or the Pitcher be broken at the Fountain, or the Wheel be broken at the Ci&s;tern, then &s;hall the du&s;t return to the Earth as it was, and the Spirit &s;hall return to God who gave it, Eccl.</HI> 12. As we have thus &s;een the fir&s;t and great efficient and formal cau&s;es of <HI>death,</HI> &s;o if we would con&s;ider the &s;econdary &amp; In&s;trumental cau&s;es thereof, they are inumerable, let us reflect on the multi|tude of means &amp; ways by which the life of man is de&s;troyed, by ature, by di&s;ea&s;es, by accidents, which may be &s;ubdivided into millions, by folly, by the lu&s;ts and intemperance of men, and almo&s;t every thing we can think of, may be the cau&s;e and in&s;trument of our death, there are many &s;ickne&s;&s;es and infirmitys that walk in darkne&s;s, and there are exterminating
<PB N="9" REF="6"> Angels, that de&s;troy us at Noon; the Sword &s;weeps away thou&s;ands in one Field, Famine and Pe&s;tilence have rooted up whole Nations: there is no age nor condition exempted from Death, the Grave either finds or makes all men equal, we dye without rule, and with or without occa&s;ions. When <HI>I&s;aac</HI> was old, and his eyes grew dimm, he &s;aid to his Son, <HI>Behold now I am old, I know not the day of my death, Gen.</HI> 27.1, 2. With as much rea&s;on may every man &s;ay this in youth as well as in age, in health as well as in &s;ickne&s;s; there are &s;o many &s;ally-ports for the &s;oul to fly out of the body, that were it not for that Almighty providence that deter|mines all things, and pre&s;erves every man till <HI>his appointed time,</HI> It would be a wonder if any &s;hould reach to half the &s;tandard that <HI>David</HI> ob&s;erved in man, <HI>the days of our age</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>are three&s;core years and ten;</HI> in &s;hort, &s;ooner or later, we mu&s;t all &s;ay with <HI>Job, I know that thou wilt bring me to Death, and to the hou&s;e appointed for all living, Job</HI> 30.23. So much for the cau&s;es of Death.</P>
<P N="2">2dly, The <HI>effects</HI> thereof are: 1&s;t, It ends this life, as &s;oon as the Bird of Paradice is fled from it's Cage, then all our words, our thoughts, and actions cea&s;e, our mirth &amp; jollity, grief and &s;adne&s;s have an end; for when the <HI>breath of man goeth forth, he &s;hall turn again to his Earth, and then all his thoughts peri&s;h, P&s;.</HI> 146.3. <HI>the dead know not any thir&s;t, their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now peri&s;hed; neither have they any more a portion for ever, in any thing that is done under the Sun, Eccl.</HI> 9.5, 6. And this we mu&s;t under&s;tand of our Religious as well as civil actions, as well of the &s;uper|natural gifts and graces of Gods holy Spirit within us, as of the natural indowments of the &s;oul and body, our life, as it gives way to Death, &s;o mu&s;t it make the way and prepare for it, 'tis the day wherein <HI>we mu&s;t work,</HI> death brings the night wherein no man can work, let us then walk while we have the light, le&s;t darne&s;s come upon us; <HI>are not my days
<PB N="10" REF="7"> few?</HI> &s;aith <HI>Job,</HI> let us then hear Gods voice, and harden not our hearts, while 'tis called to day, before <HI>we go hence and &s;hall not return, even to the land of darkne&s;s, and the &s;hadow of death, a Land of Darkne&s;s, as Darkne&s;s it &s;elf, Job</HI> 10.21, 22. The mo&s;t wicked are in this convertible, if they will take warn|ing, and amend their ways; but if they will perver&s;ly go on to &s;in wilfully, after they have <HI>received the knowledg of the truth, there remaineth no more &s;acrifice for &s;ins,</HI> after death there is no more hope of Repentance, <HI>but a certain and fearful looking for of Judgment Heb.</HI> 10.26, 27. Con&s;ider this all ye that forget God, le&s;t he <HI>de&s;troy you for ever, le&s;t he take you, and pluck you out of your dwelling, and root you out of the Land of the living, P&s;.</HI> 52.6.</P>
<P N="2">2dly, A &s;econd Effect of <HI>Death</HI> is, that as it ends this life, &s;o it begins a life to all Eternity, both to the godly, and to the wicked, to the latter 'tis the &s;ad conclu&s;ion of all joy and comfort, the beginning of never dying pain and &s;orrow, the entrance of Hell, and the fir&s;t part and feeling of that ju&s;t &s;entence which &s;hall be more fully pronounced by our Savi|our at the la&s;t day to tho&s;e on his left hand, <HI>depart from me ye cur&s;ed into everla&s;ting fire, prepared for the devil &amp; his An|gels, Matt.</HI> 25, 41. But to the former, 'tis the fir&s;t &s;tep to ble&s;&s;edne&s;s, the taking down the Tent-poles where with this Earthly Tabernacle is &s;upported, the Goal-delivery of a pri&s;oner, the &s;leep of the body and the awaking of the &s;oul, <HI>tran&s;itus a labore ad refrigerium,</HI> a pa&s;&s;age from labour to re&s;t, as <HI>Seneca</HI> calls it, and in the phra&s;e of &s;everal good men of old, a change from expectation to fruition, from faith to knowledg, from a pilgrimage to a countrey, from a frail world to the father of mercies, a depo&s;ition of this burden of fle&s;h, and a journey to the City of God, the birth-day of a better life, a death of mi&s;ery, and a burial of &s;in; <HI>Come ye ble&s;sed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from
<PB N="11" REF="7"> the foundation of the World; Death &s;hall then be &s;wallowed up in Victory; O Death, where is thy &s;ting? O Grave, where is thy victory?</HI> 1 <HI>Cor.</HI> 15.55.</P>
<P>Having &s;o fair an opportunity, I cannot pa&s;s from it with|out touching a little at the immortality of the Soul, a Sub|ject mo&s;t proper for Funeral-Sermons, and made too pertinent by the wicked lives of mo&s;t men in this degenerate and cor|rupted age, wherein we meet with two many, if not in plain words, yet interpretatively by their actions denying the everla&s;ting being of their own Souls; when we con&s;ider how vice of all &s;orts does abound among us, notwith&s;tanding all the methods that have been taken, and the means that God in his mercy has u&s;ed to reform us, when we open the eyes of our under&s;tanding, and &s;ee how God's holy Name, and his very E&s;&s;ence is profaned and bla&s;phemed by profe&s;|&s;ed Athei&s;m, and foul-mouth'd Bla&s;phemy; by unrea&s;ona|ble and extravagant Cur&s;ing and Swearing, openly practi|&s;ed by all &s;orts, even by tho&s;e who&s;e &s;tations fitt and oblige them to reprove others for &s;maller Crimes: When we re|flect on the great oppre&s;&s;ions &amp; injuries committed by men in any &s;ort of Authority, on the Drunkenne&s;s and Un|cleanne&s;s that walk bare-fac'd in our &s;treets; on the open Inju&s;tice practi&s;ed by almo&s;t all men, few making con&s;cience of their ways; but without any remor&s;e, defrau|ding and cheating their Neighbours to that degree, that as the Poet fancied of old, <HI>A&s;trea,</HI> even common Hone&s;ty and Ju&s;tice is fled from the Earth, at lea&s;t from our parts of it. When we &s;ee the multitude of our people &s;o far in love with mi&s;chief, as to take delight in rai&s;ing &s;candal and reproach, in murdering the good Name, and as far as in them lies, the Credit, Fortunes, and too often the very per&s;ons of their Chri&s;tian Brethren: I &s;ay, when we con&s;ider and reflect on the&s;e things, can we believe that men have any &s;en&s;e or ap|prehen&s;ion of the future and everla&s;ting being of their own
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<PB N="12" REF="9"> &s;ouls? that they are placed in their bodies here only as &s;o|journers, for &s;ome little time, to prepare for an everla&s;ting &s;tate hereafter?</P>
<P>I cannot &s;pare time to run out in a Lecture, to prove this Immortality; and indeed one might think it very needle&s;s to &s;pend time in the proof of that which has been owned and acknowledged as a <HI>po&s;tulatum,</HI> or fir&s;t principle, not on|ly by Chri&s;tians (who are Baptized into that very Faith) but by the Heathens them&s;elves, who owned any Deity; for they having daily before their eyes objects of good and ju&s;t men afflicted, tormented, per&s;ecuted, by Impri&s;on|ments, Deaths, Bani&s;hments; by Poverty, Sickne&s;s, and what el&s;e is u&s;ually unplea&s;ant to humane nature: And on the other hand, &s;eeing the wicked in great pro&s;perity, flou|ri&s;hing like green Bay-trees, and glutting them&s;elves with all the varieties of the plea&s;ures of this life: They, I &s;ay, ob&s;erving the&s;e things, by the light of their very carnal rea|&s;on, without entring inro the <HI>Sanctuary of God,</HI> in &s;ome mea|&s;ure under&s;tood the end of the&s;e men, concluded, that (un|le&s;s the Gods were unju&s;t, which they conceiv'd impo&s;&s;ible) there mu&s;t certainly be another life after this, wherein all &s;hall be rewarded or puni&s;hed according as they have here de&s;erved: And indeed this was the great rational induce|ment to the Heathen-world to believe not only the immor|tality of the &s;oul (which generally all acknowledged) but to the wi&s;er of them, the Re&s;urrection of the body al&s;o, the mo&s;t difficult to be believed of any Article of our Faith.</P>
<P>We read that on the great Temple at <HI>Delphos,</HI> there were two In&s;ciptions written; the one EI, relating to God, by which the Wor&s;hippers there acknowledged the immutable Being, and eternal nature of that Godhead who was there
<PB N="13" REF="9"> invoked; the other GNOTHI SEAUTON as a memento to all who came thither to take notice of, and remember the dignity and immortality of their own &s;ouls: Where the &s;ouls of the&s;e Heathens are, who invented &s;uch wi&s;e and divine Sayings, is not our bu&s;ine&s;s to enquire; but we may believe they lye not &s;o deep in Hell, but they &s;hall ri&s;e up in Judgment to condemn the unrea&s;onable folly and wicked|ne&s;s of many of our licentious Chri&s;tians, who indeed ought rather to be called <HI>Epicureans,</HI> or <HI>Sadduces;</HI> for they de&s;erve not to <HI>name the name of Chri&s;t.</HI></P>
<P>There is nothing makes men &s;o much que&s;tion their own immortality as wicked and &s;en&s;ual lives, when Men have &s;old them&s;elves <HI>to work wickedne&s;s,</HI> they then quit all thoughts of things above, and &s;ettle their affections wholly on earthly ble&s;&s;ings, they have no other conver&s;ation but with their lu&s;ts, and the vanities of this life, which flatter them for a &s;hort time with a &s;hadow of contentment, and when that vani&s;heth, they lo&s;e both &s;ub&s;tance and &s;hadow for ever, they are prejudiced by wicked and abominable Lives to the precepts and Judgments of Almighty God, and rather than for&s;ake their fle&s;hly lu&s;ts, which they know do <HI>War against the Spirit</HI> and Laws of God, they will bid defiance to Heaven, and pronounce War both with the Almighty, and again&s;t the Exi&s;tence of their own Souls, they plea&s;e them&s;elves with an Imagination of a &s;elf-&s;ufficiency here, and being &s;wollen in their own thoughts, their ba&s;e &amp; earth|ly lives make them fir&s;t wi&s;h, that their Souls were mortal; and then they begin to believe that they are &s;o, from hence the old Philo&s;ophers of the <HI>Academy</HI> concluded, that the Souls of wicked Men could not for a long time re&s;t after their departure from their Bodies, but hover'd and wander'd a|bout the Graves where the Bodies lay, to which they were &s;o &s;trictly wedded, when they were united; but &s;uch a wan|dring will not &s;erve for a puni&s;hment to the wicked Chri&s;ti|ans,
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<PB N="14" REF="11"> they &s;hall then but begin their eternal Life of Death (if I may &s;o &s;ay) when they &s;hall wi&s;h to be annihilated, call to the Mountains <HI>to cover them,</HI> and to the Sea <HI>to &s;wallow them up;</HI> but it will not be, for they did not, while they lived here, lift <HI>up their Souls with Chri&s;t,</HI> and becau&s;e they did not here <HI>die daily,</HI> they mu&s;t then live continually in a &s;tate of Dying, and yet their worm of Torment &s;hall never Dye, nor their Fire be ever quenched; it is then that in mi&s;ery they &s;hall cry out, <HI>what can a Man give in Exchange for his Soul? Mar.</HI> 8.37.</P>
<P>But Vertue and real Goodne&s;s, make Men know and be|lieve, and take delight in Contemplating their own Eternal &s;tate and fruition of God in another life; the good man lives above this world, and all the fal&s;e excellencies thereof, he places his heart where <HI>his trea&s;ure is, where neither ru&s;t, nor moths, nor thieves</HI> can prejudice him; he looks always beyond this mortal, and &s;uffers not his thoughts to be boun|ded within the narrow &s;phere of &s;en&s;ual plea&s;ures, but even while he lives here, he &s;ends up his immortal &s;oul to its pro|per home, which, in good time, &s;hall, like a load-&s;tone, draw up after it, his more material part, and place it in the &s;ociety of Angels in Heaven: The &s;eraphick love wherein the children of God employ their meditations, is &s;tronger than Death, and more powerful than the Grave; this makes them &s;et God always before them; wherefore their <HI>hearts are glad, and their glory does rejoyce, their fle&s;h al&s;o &s;hall re&s;t in hope; for why? God &s;hall not leave their &s;ouls in Hell, neither will he &s;uffer his holy ones to &s;ee corruption; he &s;hall &s;hew them the path of life, in his pre&s;ence is the fulne&s;s of joy, and at his right hand there is plea&s;ure for evermore, P&s;al.</HI> 16, from the 9th ver&s;e. Tho worms de&s;troy their fle&s;h, and rottenne&s;s enters all the letts and caverns of their bones, yet <HI>they know that their Redeemer lives,</HI> and that they &s;hall perceive him at pre&s;ent with the intellectual eye of their immortal &s;oul,
<PB N="15" REF="11"> and at the joyful re&s;urrection of their bodies, in their fle&s;h <HI>they &s;hall &s;ee God,</HI> and enjoy for ever the beatifick vi&s;ion, wherein Ble&s;&s;edne&s;s it &s;elf con&s;i&s;ts. <HI>I have al&s;o heard the &s;ame, that power belongeth unto God, and that thou, Lord, art merciful; for thou rewarde&s;t every man according to his work, P&s;al.</HI> 62.11, 12. Seeing then that all this world &s;hall be di&s;&s;olved, and <HI>all the&s;e things &s;hall &s;o come to pa&s;s, what manner of per&s;ons ought we to be in all holy conver&s;ation and godline&s;s,</HI> 2 <HI>Pet.</HI> 3.11. Which leads me to the next thing propo&s;ed, that <HI>a good life is the be&s;t preparation for death and judgment. This Wo|man was full of good Works and Alms-deeds which &s;he did.</HI></P>
<P>I might here (had I time) recommend to you a pious and good life, and prove the nece&s;&s;ity and benefit thereof from &s;everal topicks and con&s;iderations; as the profit, the plea|&s;ure, the ea&s;ine&s;s of it above wickedne&s;s, <HI>the righteous &s;hall inherit the earth; If any man de&s;ireth long life, and wou'd fain &s;ee good days, let him e&s;chew evil, and do good. My Son,</HI> &s;aith Solomon, <HI>forget not my Law, but let thy heart keep my Com|mandments; for length of days, and long life, and peace &s;hall they add unto thee, Prov.</HI> 3.1, 2. A man's Con&s;cience is either his Heaven or Hell upon Earth, and &s;hall be witne&s;s either for or again&s;t him hereafter: Let the wicked be never &s;o &s;eemingly happy, tumble in his beloved pelf, riot in all the delicacies of Epicuri&s;m, of Gluttony, Drunkenne&s;s, or Ve|nery; let him, like an Apple of <HI>Sodom,</HI> appear ruddy and plea&s;ant to the &s;ight, yet he &s;hall be found but du&s;t and rot|tenne&s;s within; the twinges of Con&s;cience will upon all ccca&s;ions frighten him into gha&s;tly looks, and fearful appre|hen&s;ions of him&s;elf and his future-&s;tate; but the plea&s;ure of a good Con&s;cience is pa&s;t expre&s;&s;ion, as the Poet &s;aith of trou|bles, they are only <HI>the &s;mall that &s;peak, but the great ones are &s;ilent,</HI> &s;o this cannot well be told, and is only known to tho&s;e who po&s;&s;e&s;s it, this is the true Philo&s;ophers Stone which
<PB N="16" REF="12"> turns all Conditions that can but touch it, to the true gold of Content, and therefore of plea&s;ure, the Hermite in his Cell, the Beggar who has not a roof but the Canopy of Heaven to cover him, the Gally-&s;lave at his Oar, or the wretch in chains dragg'd to Torments, let the&s;e have but good Con&s;ciences, they may defy the frowns of fortune, command the &s;tars, and much rather de&s;erve to be made the Objects of Envy than Pitty, this is the true nouri&s;hment of the Soul, which feeds it &s;o that it may live happily here by grace, and more happily hereafter in Glory.</P>
<P>If we con&s;ider the promi&s;es and rewards all along in the Book of Gods holy word, we &s;hall find them always pro|pounded on the performance of, and obedience to Gods Com|mandments; under the divine Oeconomy of the Law, when God's people were not grown up to be perfect men, were not a&s;cended unto <HI>the mea&s;ure of the &s;tature of the fulne&s;s of Chri&s;t;</HI> we find that people, like &s;chool-boys, were to be in&s;tructed in that Law, which was a Covenant of works, and e&s;tabli&s;hed chiefly upon promi&s;es of health and plenty, of peace and victory in this Life; for in this manner we find it &s;peaking, <HI>If ye walk in my Statutes, and keep my Commandmens, and do them, then will I give you rain in due &s;ea&s;on, and the land &s;hall yield her increa&s;e, and your thre&s;hing &s;hall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage &s;hall reach unto the &s;owing time, and ye &s;hall eat your bread to the full, and I will give peace in the Land, and ye &s;hall cha&s;e your Enemies, and they &s;hall fall before you by the Sword, Lev.</HI> 26. from the 3d ver. But upon their di&s;obedience the contrary was threatned, as may be &s;een at large in the &s;ame <HI>Cap. of Lev.</HI> Terror, Con&s;umption, and the burning Ague, and many other Plagues and mi&s;chiefs are there denounced again&s;t the breakers and contemners of that Law. And when God was plea&s;ed to aboli&s;h the outward and Ceremonial part of this Law, and in the fulne&s;s of time to &s;end his well beloved Son into the World to E&s;tabli&s;h Chri&s;tianity, and
<PB N="17" REF="12"> to propagate the everla&s;ting Go&s;pel of peace, which was to work on the inward, and mo&s;t retired thoughts and &s;pecu|lations of all it's embracers, the fir&s;t &s;tep to this great alter|ation, was to be a change in life, and manners, our <HI>Saviour</HI> fir&s;t &s;ent the holy <HI>Bapti&s;t</HI> before him to prepare his way by Preaching Repentance to all men, <HI>Repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand;</HI> and when he was come, his Sermons and Lectures (which are the Text of the Go&s;pel) did chiefly con&s;i&s;t of enjoining Evangelical Vertues and Graces, Meek|ne&s;s, Long-&s;uffering, Humility, Peaceablene&s;s, Purity, Tem|perance, Ju&s;tice, Charity, and to the performance of the&s;e are promi&s;ed fulne&s;s, the &s;ight of God, Mercy, Inheritance of the Earth, and the Kingdom of Heaven; The two great Commandments of the Go&s;pel are to love God above all things, and our Neighbours as our &s;elves, on the&s;e two hang all the <HI>Law and the Prophets,</HI> and on the performance of the&s;e it was that our Saviour promi&s;eth life to the Law|yr; <HI>This do, and thou &s;halt live, Luke</HI> 10.28.</P>
<P>'Tis to the later of the&s;e great precepts that the words of the Text, good works and Alms-deeds do chiefly belong. 'Tis one great part of every Di&s;ciple of Chri&s;t to be Chari|table to his Neighbours, as far as in him lies, and tho 'tis not in the power of every man to exerci&s;e Alms-deeds (which is but one part of Charity) yet every man is bound to do good to his Neighbour as far as his Ability can reach, by good advice, by good words, or good deeds.</P>
<P>St. <HI>Paul</HI> gives a large commendation to this Vertue in his 13th <HI>Cap.</HI> of his 1&s;t Ep, to the <HI>Corinthians; Tho I &s;peak with the tongues of Men and Angels, and have not Charity, I am become as &s;ounding Bra&s;s, or a tinckling Cymbal; and tho I have the gift of Prophecy, and under&s;tand all My&s;teries, and have no Charity, I am nothing: Charity &s;uffereth long, and is
<PB N="18" REF="13"> kind, envieth not, doth not behave it &s;elf un&s;eemly, &s;eeketh not her own, thinketh no evil: Charity never faileth, but Prophe|cies, Tongues, Knowledg &s;hall vani&s;h away,</HI> and then he con|cludes, <HI>and now abideth Faith, Hope, Charity, but the greate&s;t of the&s;e is Charity.</HI> St. <HI>James</HI> places true Religion in being kind to our Brother, and this mu&s;t not con&s;i&s;t in a loving expre&s;&s;ion, or an empty wi&s;h, <HI>if a Brother or Si&s;ter be naked, or de&s;titute of dayly food, and one of you &s;ay unto them, depart in peace; be ye warmed and filled, notwith&s;tanding ye give them not tho&s;e things which are needful to the body, what doth it pro|fit? Jam.</HI> 2.15, 16. <HI>But pure Religion, and undefiled before God and the Father is this, to vi&s;it the fatherle&s;s and widows in their affliction, and to keep him&s;elf un&s;potted from the world, Jam.</HI> 1.27. we mu&s;t (if we be able) cloath the naked, feed the hungry, relieve the oppre&s;&s;ed, and in all things verify what the moral Phylo&s;ophy of the Stoicks &s;aid, <HI>that men were born for the &s;ake of one another,</HI> that they might in all things promote the common good of mankind; but <HI>behold a greater than</HI> the Stoicks <HI>is here.</HI> We find the great Apo&s;tle of the Gentiles paraphra&s;ing in his and our Ma&s;ter's words, in his Epi&s;tle to the <HI>Rom.</HI> 13.8. <HI>Owe no man any thing</HI> (&s;aith he) <HI>but to love one another; for he that loveth another, hath ful|filled the Law:</HI> and again, all the Law is fulfilled in one word, even in this, <HI>Thou &s;halt love thy Neighbour as thy &s;elf, Gal.</HI> 5.14. <HI>Who&s;o doth the&s;e things, &s;hall never fall, Gal.</HI> 15.7. The&s;e are the means, my Brethren, to make <HI>our Calling and Election &s;ure;</HI> for if we can perform the&s;e good works thro Faith in Je&s;us Chri&s;t, we need not be afraid at the &s;ummons of Death, but &s;hall enter into our Ma&s;ter's pre&s;ence with joy and gladne&s;s: Let us then lead good lives in the&s;e our days, and then we may be a&s;&s;ured, that when we go hence, we &s;hall have the accompli&s;hment of <HI>Balaam</HI>'s wi&s;h, <HI>Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my la&s;t end be like his, Numb.</HI> 23.10.</P>
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<P>Thus I have ended the two fir&s;t general Heads propo&s;ed, I have &s;hewed you what <HI>Death is,</HI> both in its cau&s;es, and in its effects; and the be&s;t preparation both for Death and Judgment, is <HI>a good life here:</HI> I come to the la&s;t, the appli|cation of what has been &s;aid to this Honourable decea&s;ed Lady, <HI>this Woman was full of good works and Als-deeds which &s;he did,</HI> in &s;hewing whereof I &s;hall pur&s;ue the general de&s;ign of this whole di&s;cour&s;e, by laying before you the pattern of a life, which if you can but imitate in your practices, will certainly be a means to teach you how to live, and thereby prepare you for Death and Judgment: Death &s;hall be &s;o far from being an evil to any that &s;hall write after her Copy, that it &s;hall rather be reckoned among the benefits and ad|vantages of the be&s;t fortune.</P>
<P>Before I &s;peak of the rare endowments of her mind (which indeed is my proper Subject) I &s;hall touch a little at the de&s;cent of her body, the Cabinet in which that precious jewel for upwards of &s;ixty years was pre&s;erved; It is not my province to per&s;onate the Herald, by di&s;playing her Arms, and Banners, nor to play the Bard by ripping up her pedi|gree, and flattering her &s;ucce&s;&s;ors by ful&s;om commendations of her Family and Ance&s;tors, only thus much it may not be improper to inform you from hence, that &s;he was de&s;cended by her Father from the great and ancient family of the <HI>O Neil's,</HI> a family, who by their Prowe&s;s, Wi&s;dom and Valour, for many ages, by a regal power &s;wayed the Scepter of this Province, if not &s;ometimes of this whole I&s;land; As all great Families mu&s;t &s;ubdivide into &s;everal branches and hou&s;es, &s;o did this great fountain &s;end out it's &s;everal &s;treams, who were the Rulers and Proprietors of &s;everal Counties &amp; Baronies, and &s;o the Ance&s;tor of this Noble Lady was the chief <HI>O Neil</HI> of this County, and not far beyond the me|mory of &s;ome now living, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed as his proper E&s;tate
<PB N="20" REF="14"> this place with all the adjacent Countrey. By her Mother &s;he &s;prung from the Noble, and ancient Family of the <HI>Staf|fords,</HI> who for three generations were the great Dukes of <HI>Buckingham</HI> in <HI>England,</HI> and for many years both before and after, continued Noble, with &s;everal Titles, and were related to the Crown of <HI>England,</HI> &s;o that by both Father and Mother &s;he de&s;cended from, and was related to Crowned heads; <HI>Solomon</HI> tells us, <HI>Ble&s;sed art thou O Land, when thy King is the Son of Nobles, Eccl.</HI> 10.7. So al&s;o ble&s;&s;ed is the Land, when the Nobles are the Sons and Daughters of Kings, and when the King<HI>'s Daughter appears all glorious within,</HI> when God gives unto the King <HI>Judgment, and his Righteou&s;ne&s;s to the King's Children P&s;.</HI> 72.1.</P>
<P>When the Poets de&s;cribe their Heroes, they always draw their pedegree from the Gods, <HI>Contingit &s;anguine Coelum,</HI> &s;aith <HI>Virgil</HI> of his <HI>Aeneas;</HI> but our Chri&s;tian Heroin was more nearly and truly of heavenly de&s;cent; by her Vertues &s;he was allied to God him&s;elf: <HI>Who&s;oever &s;hall do the will of God, the &s;ame is my Brother, and my Si&s;ter, and Mother,</HI> &s;aith our Saviour; <HI>Mar.</HI> 3.35. Her Countrey then is Heaven, her City the new Jeru&s;alem, which is above; her fellow-Citizens, the Saints and Angels; and her Nobility was the following the &s;teps of her Ble&s;&s;ed Saviour, by being <HI>holy as he is holy.</HI> Thus have you &s;een the Rock whence &s;he was hewn, and the Pitt whence &s;he was dugg.</P>
<P>She was born (as I am informed) at <HI>Black-Hall</HI> within 24 miles of <HI>London,</HI> in or about the year of God 1631. where Sir <HI>Henry O Neil,</HI> her worthy Father then lived, and where, about &s;even years after he died. She &s;pent her in|fancy and childhood till the tenth year of her age, under the tuition of a careful, kind, and religious Mother, who early infu&s;ed into her goodne&s;s, both by precept, and by her example; and &s;o well had the Mother perform'd her part in
<PB N="21" REF="14"> in&s;tructing her Child, and &s;o well was the Daughter qualified to &s;tand <HI>in the King's Palace,</HI> being <HI>without blemi&s;h, and well favoured,</HI> and apt to be in&s;tructed in Wi&s;dom and Knowledg, <HI>Dan.</HI> 1.4. That when King <HI>Charles</HI> the fir&s;t (of ever Ble&s;&s;ed Memory) in the year 1641, had e&s;pou&s;ed his elde&s;t Daugh|ter to the then young Prince of <HI>Orange,</HI> then was our Lady (together with the Daughters of &s;ome of the Prime Nobility of <HI>England</HI>) pitched on to attend the <HI>Prince&s;s-Royal</HI> out of the Kingdom, when the King's Daughter, by being married, was to <HI>forget her own People&punc; and her Fathers hou&s;e,</HI> then was this to be one of the <HI>Virgins to be her fellows, and to bear her Company, P&s;al.</HI> 45.15.</P>
<P>In that high &s;ervice to that Excellent Prince&s;s, &s;he lived for above 9 years, in which time &s;he was educated in all tho&s;e perfections which are the accompli&s;hments of great Ladies, &s;he &s;pent not her time in the follies and vanities wherein too many place the happine&s;s and greatne&s;s of Courts, even in the days of her youth (which are commonly the days of vanity) &s;he knew how to di&s;tingui&s;h betwixt true and coun|terfeit greatne&s;s, &s;he very early, with <HI>Mary,</HI> cho&s;e <HI>that good part which was never taken from her,</HI> and &s;o as &s;he grew in &s;tature, &s;he grew in vertue, and therefore <HI>in favour with God and Man,</HI> and from that path &s;he never deviated all the daies of her Life, &s;he for&s;ook not the <HI>guide of her youth, nor forgot the Covenant of her God, Prov.</HI> 2.17.</P>
<P>During this attendance on her Royal Highne&s;s, that mo&s;t vertuous Prince&s;s ob&s;erving in this young Lady the &s;eeds of a growing vertue, much good nature, and extraordinary Inge|nuity, admitted her to a more then ordinary friend&s;hip and familiarity with her, which, with her de&s;erts always increa|&s;ing, grew at la&s;t to that height, that &s;he e&s;teemed her as her intimate friend, which was <HI>as her own &s;oul unto her,</HI> and this &s;he demon&s;trated during her whole Life, by many expre&s;&s;ions of great fondne&s;s and &s;ignal favours conferr'd upon her, &s;he
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<PB N="22" REF="16"> &s;hew'd that there is <HI>a Friend that &s;ticks clo&s;er than a Brother, Prov.</HI> 18.24. Nay, we may &s;ay &s;he intailed this friend&s;hip to her po&s;terity; our pre&s;ent King (whom God pre&s;erve) always owning her for &s;uch, both before and &s;ince his hap|py acce&s;&s;ion to the Throne of the&s;e Kingdoms; <HI>His own friend, and his Parent's friend, he never for&s;ook, Prov.</HI> 27.10. When maturity of Age had fitted her to change her con|dition from Virgin to Wife, &s;he being Heire&s;s to a great E&s;tate, and Mi&s;tre&s;s of &s;o many rare Perfections and En|dowments both of mind and body, both of wit and beauty, could not want many Suiters of the fir&s;t and highe&s;t Rank and Quality; but to them all, by her Mother's choice, (which was always a rule to her) the Lord Marqui&s;s of <HI>Antrim</HI> was preferr'd, and made the happy man, by being Married to this Excellent Lady in or about the year 1652. By this Match &s;he had Nobility and Honour added to her other Ble&s;&s;ings, being made Con&s;ort to the chief (at lea&s;t in this Kingdom) of the great and ancient Family of the <HI>Mc Donnells,</HI> who&s;e Ance&s;tors were the great Lords (and &s;ometimes Kings) of the I&s;les of <HI>Scotland,</HI> and who&s;e valour, and their Prince's favour in this later age, made them Ma|&s;ters and Proprietors of one half of the County of <HI>Antrim:</HI> And how great a Ble&s;&s;ing &s;he proved to that Honorable Family, I believe many of the be&s;t of this Auditory know better than I can inform them. By the&s;e Nuptials, &s;he be|came the &s;econd in Quality of the Nobility of this King|dom; and if Vertue be <HI>the &s;ole and true Nobility</HI> (as long ago it has been called) then &s;he was &s;econd to none. And now, if any might <HI>glory after the fle&s;h,</HI> &s;urely &s;he might glory al&s;o. Are they of the &s;eed Royal of <HI>Ireland?</HI> &s;o was &s;he: Are they de&s;cended from the prime Nobility of <HI>England?</HI> &s;o was &s;he: Are they matched into the anciente&s;t and greate&s;t Families of <HI>Scotland?</HI> &s;o was &s;he: the whole three Kingdoms joyned together to make her great: She was
<PB N="23" REF="16"> great by Birth, great by Education, great by Marriage, but greate&s;t of all by her Vertue and Goodne&s;s: the others were the adventicious ble&s;&s;ings of her good fortune; but this was her own by choice, and therefore mo&s;t to be va|lued.</P>
<P><HI>Et genus &amp; proavos &amp; quae non fecimus ip&s;i vix ea no&s;tra voco.</HI> She valued not her fortune, for making her Rich or Noble, but thought her &s;elf obliged to perform vertuous and worthy actions, le&s;t &s;he &s;hould degenerate from the wor|thyne&s;s of tho&s;e Stocks from whence &s;he &s;prung.</P>
<P>Thus having brought her to the State of woman-hood, 'tis time to de&s;cribe her to you by tho&s;e Excellencies by which &s;he was properly and de&s;ervedly e&s;teemed good, for all be|fore, what is done in childhood, and youth, are but ten|dencies to vertue, and inclinations to goodne&s;s. In perform|ing of this, I &s;hall fir&s;t &s;peak of her <HI>Religion to God,</HI> 2dly, of <HI>her Charity to man,</HI> and la&s;tly of her <HI>Sobriety and Wi&s;dom in relation to her &s;elf.</HI></P>
<P>Fir&s;t, then of <HI>her Religion and Duty towards God,</HI> and here we &s;hall find her not of mean and common &s;anctity, but of extraordinary and exemplary Piety and Devotion; God was always the fir&s;t in her intention, and therefore that ultimate end, to the enjoyment of whom, all the intermediate ends and actions of her life were directed: She was the mo&s;t con&s;tant and regular at her Prayers and holy Meditations, of any that ever I knew; for the&s;e &s;he had her fixed and &s;ettled hours, which nothing of bu&s;ine&s;s or compliment di|verted her from: Her Clo&s;et was her con&s;tant withdraw|ing-room, and with holy <HI>David,</HI> in the evening, and morn|ing, and at noon-day <HI>did</HI> &s;he <HI>always</HI> pray, and that in&s;tantly, and doubtle&s;s was heard in that &s;he prayed, <HI>P&s;al.</HI> 55.17.
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<PB N="24" REF="18"> Her Devotion was not &s;uperficial and formal, but always &s;o managed as not to be &s;een of men, not with the o&s;tenta|tion of the Phari&s;ee, to be heard thanking God that &s;he <HI>was not like other people;</HI> but with the humble and penitent Publican, &s;miting on her brea&s;t, and praying her God <HI>to be merciful to her a &s;inner, Luke</HI> 18.13. She was not of a con|&s;titution like an ill planted and unpruned Tree, which &s;hoots out into excre&s;cencies of &s;uckers, leaves, and irre|gular branches, without bringing any fruit to perfection; but being grounded in Humility, &s;he took deep <HI>root downward,</HI> and <HI>brought forth much fruit upward,</HI> in the &s;ub&s;tantial graces of Chri&s;tianity, in Meekne&s;s and Purity, in Ju&s;tice and Cha|rity, in Temperance and Prudence, and always turn'd away from &s;uch <HI>who having a form of godline&s;s, deny the power there|of,</HI> 2 <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.5.</P>
<P>She was born and bred within the Pale of the Prote&s;tant-Church of <HI>England</HI> and <HI>Ireland,</HI> of who&s;e Doctrine and Di&s;cipline, &s;he lived a Zealous Profe&s;&s;or, and of who&s;e Communion &s;he dyed a faithful Partaker, and for which great ble&s;&s;ing &s;he was ever mo&s;t thankful to her gracious God, as &s;hall even now appear from her own Notes and Meditations; She was a mo&s;t &s;trict ob&s;erver of the Offices and Lyturgy of the Church, which was always read twice a day in her Family; She was a con&s;tant companion at the Altar, never omitting any opportunity of Receiving the ble&s;&s;ed Body and Blood of her Saviour; and here I mu&s;t &s;hew you how worthy a Communicant &s;he was, by ob&s;er|ving the wonderful order &s;he took in performing this great duty. In a private Cabinet (which &s;he re&s;erved wholly to her &s;elf) were found after her death, &s;everal excellent pieces of Devotion, written with her own hand; among others, are entries made of every time &s;he Receiv'd the Sa|crament, (which, by computation, appears to be &s;ix or &s;e|ven
<PB N="25" REF="18"> times yearly when in the Countrey, and twelve or <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">fteen times when &s;he liv'd in the City) here are al&s;o en|tred her Re&s;olutions at each of the&s;e good times, with her performances of them, which are mo&s;t Excellent, and Wonderfully perform'd; in her Confe&s;&s;ional Notes &s;he &s;hewed her great knowledge of her Duty to God, to her Neighbour, and to her Self, by her &s;orrow for every the lea&s;t Breach of them, not the lea&s;t Peccadillo, or Pa&s;&s;ion &s;hew'd to a Servant, but notice is taken of it with Confe&s;&s;ion and Sorrow, and every Pa&s;&s;age has it's Date; Here &s;he had Regi&s;tred a Catalogue of Gods Mercies, and favours to her from her Birth, begins with the general ble&s;&s;ings of being Born within the Chri&s;tian-Church, with particu|lar thanks for being bred a Prote&s;tant; then &s;he recounts all the particular Mercies Vouch&s;afed unto her, her jour|nies by Sea and Land, all the Tran&s;actions about her Lords and her own E&s;tate, Recoveries of health, Reconci|liations with her Friends and Neighbours, deliverances from Fire, Theft, and Stormes, with the certain times and Dates of Each; thus did &s;he keep her accounts clear with her Great Ma&s;ter, and happy mu&s;t needs that &s;ervant be, <HI>Whom her Lord at his coming found &s;o doing, Mat.</HI> 24.46. Her Meditations on the Life and Death of our Savi|our, and on the different manner of God's dealing with his own Creatures are mo&s;t Excellent and Divine; her thoughts were &s;etled <HI>on things above, and not on things on the Earth;</HI> and therefore in her better part, &s;he is certain|ly <HI>ri&s;en with Chri&s;t, and is now with him on the Right-Hand of God,</HI> Coll. 3.1. She was a dilligent and con&s;tant Reader of the Holy Scripture, obliging her &s;elf to great Portions of it every day, and her neglects herein at any time are found among her Penitential Confe&s;&s;ions; &s;he Studied the&s;e Books, not out of Vanity, O&s;tentation or Curio&s;ity, but to render her a true Schollar of Chri&s;t, and to make her <HI>wi&s;e unto Salvation;</HI> She knew that this <HI>Scripture was given by the In&s;piration of God, and is Profi|table
<PB N="26" REF="19"> for Doctrine, for Reproof, for Correction, and for In|&s;truction in Righteou&s;ne&s;s, that whoever therein employ them&s;elves may be perfect, throughly Furni&s;hed unto all good works,</HI> 2. <HI>Tim.</HI> 3.16, 17. And being on this Subject, I mu&s;t take notice unto you of a paper found in the afore|&s;aid Cabinet, which I cannot better recommend than in her own words, thus then it was written.</P>
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<P><HI>I was born of Chri&s;tian Parents by Gods e&s;pecial Grace, and by them bapti&s;ed and bred in the Chri&s;tian Religion, and taught to read the Scriptures in my Childhood, which is not to be Reproved, &s;ince St.</HI> Paul <HI>approves it,</HI> 2 Tim. 3.11. <HI>I was then taught to e&s;teem it as the word of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">od, and &s;o to Reverence it, to Believe it wi hout any kind of doubting, and to make it the Rule of my Life. Then on all <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">cca&s;ions, for Encouragement of Vertue and &s;uppre&s;&s;ing Vice, I &s;till heard Arguments brought from it by all Parties, none rejecting its Authority. All Preachers take their Texts from thence, and &s;trengthen their A&s;&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">tions by quoting it. When I grew up to &s;ome under&s;tanding, I thought I found in that Book ano|ther Spirit than in any other, the Rules &s;o Ju&s;t and Equal; e&s;pecially in the New Testament, the Mercies of God &s;o Emi|nent and Loving, his Puni&s;hments &s;o Ju&s;t, his Works &s;o Wonderful, and tho&s;e of his Servants; his Prophecies accom|pli&s;h'd, the Characters of good Men; e&s;pecially our Lords; &s;o Excellent, the Devotion therein &s;o Excellent, Mild, and yet fervent, the Prayers &s;o Devout, the Prai&s;es &s;o Exalted, all of it &s;o Meek, &s;o Ju&s;t, &s;o Wi&s;e, that what I had at fir&s;t been taught, my Rea&s;on now a&s;sented unto, and I believe it proceeded not from a prepo&s;&s;e&s;t Mind, but hope it was the good Spirit of my gracious God that inform'd me. When I en|ter'd into the concerns of the World, and read Books, I found that all Chri&s;tians acknowledged the Bible to be the word of God, that it was all Truth, awd every &s;everal Sect,
<PB N="27" REF="19"> pretended it made for them. I found all other People called the Bible the Chri&s;tians Book, which they e&s;teemed Sacred, and the ground of their Religion, and to be the Word of their God; &s;o that I &s;aw I mu&s;t be Ridiculous, if I called my &s;elf a Chri&s;tien, and made any doubt of the Bible, which none of 'em ever que&s;tioned, tho' they differed concerning the Tran&s;la|tion of it, which is another Point.</HI></P>
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<P>Is not this a Rational Di&s;cour&s;e, and might it not become the be&s;t and mo&s;t Learned Divine?</P>
<P>There were two other Papers like this, the one again&s;t the <HI>Socinians</HI> A&s;&s;ertion, That the My&s;tery of the Trinity, is as much again&s;t Sen&s;e and Rea&s;on, as Tran&s;ub&s;tantiation, wherein &s;he &s;hewed the excellency of her Parts, in confu|ting that newly revived mon&s;trous Here&s;ie; and on the clean Paper on the front is piece of her Clo&s;et; BIBLE I &s;aw written in her own Hand, Quotations to &s;everal Texts, proving the Divini<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">y of our Saviour, again&s;t the Error of that pernicious Sect: The other Paper, is again&s;t an infal|lible Guide, the Great <HI>Diana of Rome,</HI> which brings &s;uch Gain to the mighty Men of that occupation, and which mo&s;t of any one point, keeps up the difference, betwixt them and the Reformed Churches, and all other Chri&s;tians; by the&s;e &s;he demon&s;trated how much &s;he laboured to make her &s;elf Orthodox in the Faith, and that her Religion was not grounded in fancy, or opinion, but on the &s;trength of Rea&s;on and a &s;aving Faith; &s;he was not to be blown a&s;ide by the Wind of every Doctrine, nor to be prevail'd on, by the &s;pecious Sophi&s;ms of tho&s;e, who of all Men are mo&s;t bu&s;ie to make Pro&s;elytes to their corrupted Tenents; of this &s;ort are they which creep into Hou&s;es, and chiefly <HI>lead captive &s;illy Women laden with Sins, led away with divers Lu&s;ts,</HI> 2 Tim. 3 6. But &s;he was too powerful for the&s;e, even in their late times of prevailing, when either weak|ne&s;s of Judgment, or hopes of profit in them to whom <HI>Gain is Godline&s;s,</HI> made their endeavours too &s;ucce&s;sful on tho&s;e who &s;tarted a&s;ide like broken Bows; &s;he &s;tood fixed
<PB N="28" REF="20"> and unmoved like a Rock again&s;t all tho&s;e beating Bil|lows, and violent Storms, who only broke them&s;elves, but hurt not her; and thus after the way which many of her Relations <HI>call Here&s;ie, &s;o Wor&s;hipp'd &s;he the God of her Fathers,</HI> believing <HI>all things which are written in the Law and the Prophets,</HI> Acts 24.14. So much for her Duty to God.</P>
<P>Secondly, For her <HI>Duty to Man, &s;he</HI> was mo&s;t &s;ignally famous, &s;he had as it were incorporated Love and Cha|rity into her Soul, and made the principles thereof one with her &s;elf, in the Philo&s;ophers Phra&s;e; &s;he was dipp'd into Charity over Head and Ears, had not a &s;uperficial tincture of it, but was Dyed and Colour'd quite thro' with it; &s;o that, where&s;oever &s;he had a Soul, there was Love and Friend&s;hip; <HI>Plato</HI> tells us, <HI>Non nobis &s;olum na&s;|cimur,</HI> we are not born only for our &s;elves, but part of us our Country requires, part our Parents, part our Friends, thus did &s;he divide her &s;elf, but into more parts than that Wi&s;e Heathen enumerated; Nature dictated to him, but &s;he had Nature <HI>improved by Grace</HI> for her Guide; in Re|lation then to her Country, &s;he was a faithful and Loyal Subject; &s;he knew that 'twas her Duty to <HI>Render to</HI> Cae&s;ar <HI>the things that are</HI> Cae&s;ars, as well as <HI>to God the things that are Gods,</HI> and therefore &s;he extreamly abominated all Tu|mults and Di&s;cords, all Seditions and Rebellions, and that not only for Wrath, but for Con&s;cience &s;ake; Woe was her, when &s;he was con&s;trained <HI>to dwell with</HI> Me&s;ech, <HI>and to have her Habitation among the Tents of</HI> Kedar; &s;he laboured much for Peace, and hated tho&s;e who were <HI>al|ways making ready for Battle,</HI> P&s;al. 120.4.6. in her Coun|try likewi&s;e &s;he was an eminent Patriot, minding in all things the good of the Publick, &s;he was affable and cour|teous to all People, friendly to her Neighbours, ho&s;pita|ble to Strangers, kind and affectionate to her Relations, to her Tenants a mo&s;t bountiful Land-Lady, forgiving and forbearing them, to that degree, that all or 'em lived
<PB N="29" REF="20"> happily under her Wings, and under her Protection; and now they have lo&s;t a great Mother <HI>in our</HI> I&s;rael.</P>
<P>If we look upon her as a Wife we &s;hall find that for thir|ty years together, &s;he fully perform'd one of the great Ends for which Woman was made; <HI>And the Lord God &s;aid, it is not good that Man &s;hould be alone, I will make him an help meet for him,</HI> Gen 2.18 and &s;urely, &s;he was this meet help unto her Lord, who being bred up in the Delicacies of a Court, and his Genius not inclining to the fatigue of bu&s;i|ne&s;s, le&s;t the whole management of his E&s;tate and Confu|&s;ed Affairs to her Prudence and Di&s;cretion, which in all particulars appeared &s;o Signal, that few Women (if any of our Age ever attain'd to &s;o great a Dexterity in bu&s;ine&s;s, and yet without dimini&s;hing ought of her Duty to God, or ne|glecting the more weighty Concerns of her Soul. Her Lord and &s;he intirely loved each other, they in all things thought and &s;pake the &s;ame thing, &s;ave in the manner of Wor&s;hip|ing of God, and even in that, tho' they differ'd, they did not di&s;agree, but each enjoyed their own way in which they had been Educated in Peace, Content, and Happine&s;s, without the lea&s;t Heats, or Animo&s;ities, which are the too u&s;ual con&s;equents of differing Opinions in the &s;ame Hou&s;e, betwixt Man and Wife, and not only betwixt them|&s;elves was all Bitterne&s;s and Rancour laid a&s;ide, but al&s;o, their Prote&s;tant Tenants and Neighbours enjoyed the Fa|vour and Countenance of their Lord; and never &s;uffered by that furious Zeal and Bigottry, which too often bya&s;&s;es the Great Men of that Per&s;wa&s;ion.</P>
<P>As a Mother al&s;o we may Remember her; for tho' God was not plea&s;ed to Ble&s;s her with any fruit of her own Womb; yet &s;he endeavoured to &s;upply that want, by ta|king unto her tho&s;e of her neare&s;t Relations, and making them her Chil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">en by Adoption; to whom &s;he gave &s;uch Education, as might in all things qualifie them to Inherit her great E&s;tate; which I hope they will look on, as an
<PB N="30" REF="21"> Obligation on them to endeavour to be heirs likewi&s;e of her Vertues; I pray God give them Grace to walk in tho&s;e Paths of Goodne&s;s, and to follow tho&s;e Methods which &s;he laid down unto them, which be&s;ides the Con&s;iderations of their Eternal Welfare) will certainly be a means to conti|nue tho&s;e Earthly Ble&s;&s;ings to their Family, which, we may believe, her Vertues procured; let them honour this Mother of theirs, by being Obedient to her Precepts, and <HI>their days &s;hall be long in the Land, which the Lord their God giveth them,</HI> Exod. 20.12.</P>
<P>In her Family, &s;he was a mo&s;t excellent Mi&s;tre&s;s to her Servants of all Degrees, not only Rendring unto them what was Ju&s;t and Equal knowing that &s;he had a Ma&s;ter in Heaven, but being kind and bountiful, amiable, ea&s;ie and fa|miliar, without evil &s;peaking, or railing, and thus in all the&s;e Relations; what&s;oever <HI>things were True, what&s;oever things were Hone&s;t, what&s;oever things were Ju&s;t, what&s;oever things were Pure, what&s;oever things were Lovely, what&s;oever things were of good Report,</HI> on the&s;e &s;he Thought, and the&s;e &s;he Practi&s;ed, <HI>Phil.</HI> 4.8.</P>
<P>But in her Duty to her Neighbour, we mu&s;t not forget her Goodne&s;s to the Poor; <HI>This Woman was full of good Works and Alms-Deeds which &s;he did; above all things have fervent Charity</HI> (&s;aith St. <HI>Peter) for Charity &s;hall cover the multitude of Sins,</HI> 1 Pet. 4.8. And this part of her Charity did not run in the ordinary Channels, by giving a &s;mall Alms to walking Beggars (and even in this, &s;he was very large and liberal; but &s;o as by our Saviours Command, her left Hand &s;carce knew what her right Hand did) but her way was to relieve by whole-&s;ale; &s;he gave large Sums of Money together, to Gentlemen in Di&s;tre&s;s&punc; or to poor Wi|dows; &s;he had many con&s;tant Pen&s;ioners to whom &s;he allowed certain Annuities, and they not &s;mall ones, but fitted to the Qualities and Nece&s;&s;ities of the Receivers, I wi&s;h the wants of many now in that Neighbourhood where &s;he lived, may
<PB N="31" REF="21"> not be one of the Proclaimers of her good Deeds; &s;he cloathed the Naked, and provided Bread for the Hungry; &s;he was Eyes to the Blind, and feet was &s;he to the Lame, and a Mother to the Poor, <HI>Job.</HI> 29.15. She remembred the Words of our Saviour, That whatever <HI>Good was done to the lea&s;t of the&s;e his Brethren, was done unto him,</HI> Mat. 25.40. She never forgot St. <HI>Paul</HI>'s Charge; charge them <HI>who are Rich in this World, that they be ready to Give, and glad to Di&s;tribute, laying up in Store for them&s;elves, a good foundation again&s;t the time to come, that they may attain E|ternal Life,</HI> 1 Tim. 6.17, 18, 19. She always had <HI>pity on the Poor,</HI> and thereby <HI>lent unto the Lord;</HI> and doubtle&s;s, what &s;he thus laid out, is now paid her again with Intere&s;t and Advantage, <HI>Prov.</HI> 19.17. <HI>I</HI> &s;hould in the third and la&s;t place, &s;peak &s;omething of her Duty to her &s;elf, in Sobriety and Wi&s;dom; but what has been &s;aid, has in &s;ome mea&s;ure laid that before you; and the time being &s;o far &s;pent, I &s;hall proceed no farther in it; you have heard her Beha|viour to God and her Neighbour; and a very good Au|thor tells us, That <HI>the fear of the Lord, that is Wi&s;dom, and to depart from Evil, that is &V;nder&s;tanding, and the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wi&s;dom, and they only have a good &V;nder&s;tanding who do thereafter,</HI> P&s;al. 111.10.</P>
<P>Thus have I in as few words as I could (much fewer than the Subject required) brought this excellent Lady thro' all the Stages of her happy Life; her warning for Dea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">h was very &s;hort, being Sick but a few days; but indeed her Life was ever &s;o Regular, That &s;he could not be taken unprovided; her every days Devotion prepared her for Death at Night, and &s;he was always one of the Go&s;pel wi&s;e Virgins, who kept her Lamp Trimmed, and was ready to Receive the Heavenly Bridegroom at what|ever hour he &s;hould come; as &s;he lived in a continued Calm, even when her Affairs were in the greate&s;t Storm;
<PB N="32" REF="22"> &s;o &s;he de&s;ired to dye without Noi&s;e or Confu&s;ion; and therefore, &s;he prayed her Phy&s;itian to make no Di&s;cove|ry of what fatal Signs or Symtoms he &s;hould perceive in her; not many hours before her departure, &s;he com|manded all People to withdraw from her, and when a|lone, &s;he was perceived by &s;ome who watched her, to Ri&s;e from her Chair, and to Kneel down, in which Po|&s;ture &s;he continued a con&s;iderable time, at mo&s;t earne&s;t Prayer; and when &s;he had ended, &s;he called in her At|tendance, and &s;oon after in her Chair, &s;he turned away her Head, and breathed her La&s;t; and thus &s;he Lived and Dyed with the Innocence of a Lamb; God was al|ways in that &s;till and quiet Temper of hers; and n<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">w &s;he is with God, in perpetual Re&s;t, Quiet and Happine&s;s.</P>
<P>And now, my Brethren, behold this Woman of Worth and Eminency, con&s;ider her Life <HI>to provoke unto love and imitation,</HI> and let not the meanne&s;s of my de&s;cription de|rogate ought from the greatne&s;s of that Character which &s;he de&s;erved. This task was de&s;igned indeed for an abler Tongue, our late mo&s;t excellent Bi&s;hop (Dr. <HI>Foley</HI>) who, had God been plea&s;ed to have &s;pared his life, would have laid before you the rare Perfections and Endowments of this departed Saint, in &s;uch holy Rhetorick, as &s;o great a Subject de&s;erved; and &s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">nce I mention that good man, I mu&s;t ask your pardon and patience to drop one Tear to the memory of an old Friend, and a kind Indulgent Fa|ther: I know he de&s;igned &s;o much good to the&s;e Dioce&s;&s;es, that all the members of them have rea&s;on to be concern'd for the great lo&s;s we &s;u&s;tain by his death; it looks too like a puni&s;hment to us for our &s;ins: I am &s;ure we of his Clergy have rea&s;on to lament him in the words of <HI>Eli&s;ha,</HI> when his Ma&s;ter was taken from him; <HI>My Father, my Fa|ther, the Chariot of our I&s;rael and the Hor&s;emen thereof:</HI> I wi&s;h he may have left his Ma<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="3 letters">e behind him, and a part at lea&s;t of his good Spirit: When he came fir&s;t to his
<PB N="33" REF="22"> Charge here among us (which he intended to Rule not with a rod, but in love, and in the &s;pirit of meekne&s;s) he told me that he had heard &s;o great a &s;ame of the goodne&s;s of my Lady Marchione&s;s of <HI>Antrim,</HI> that he earne&s;tly de&s;ired to be of her intimate acquaintance, and to that end he made her one of his fir&s;t Vi&s;its; and to begin their friend&s;hip, he Preached before her; and with her, he fir&s;t in his Dioce&s;s Received the holy Sacrament of the Body &amp; Blood of our Saviour, making that (as it was called truly in the pious Primitive times of Chri&s;tianity) a Fea&s;t of Love and Charity; and I make no doubt, they are now perfecting their acquaintance and friend&s;hip, and drinking together the <HI>fruit of that Vine new in their Father's King|dom, Matth.</HI> 26.29. They are now Ble&s;&s;ed, being called to the Marriage-Supper of the Lamb, where all Tears &s;hall be <HI>wiped from their eyes, and there &s;hall be no more death, nei|ther &s;orrow, nor crying; neither &s;hall there be any more pain; for the former things are pa&s;sed away,</HI> Rev. 21.4. <HI>And I heard a voice from Heaven &s;aying unto me, write, Ble&s;&s;ed are the dead which dye in the Lord, that they may re&s;t from their labours, and their works do follow them, Rev.</HI> 14.13. Of which number, that we may all in good time be, God of his infinite mercy grant.</P>
<CLOSER>Amen.</CLOSER>
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