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A76457	Ezekiel's prophesie parallel'd: or, The desire of the eyes taken away Delivered in a sermon, preach'd at the funerals of the most virtuous Mrs Elizabeth Cole, wife to Robert Cole Esquire, at Wye in Kent, Nov. 26. MDCLI. By Samuel Barnard, Doctor in Divinity.	Bernard, Samuel, 1590 or 91-1657.	1652 (1652)	Wing B2037A; ESTC R231035	15,530	38

no longer as two made of the same mould as all mankind are in generall but they two one flesh Their wil●s one their desires the same Their souls linkt together That 's true love indeed To chuse and refuse the same things Idem nolle et velle ea demum Salust Conjur Cat. perfecta est Amicitia This is the true nearness The only dearness saith the Historian And indeed I have often heard the Husband say which I cannot but mention That there was never any contention or Controversie between them but only one But it was a very heavenly one a most blessed and happy one And that was this Which of the Two should love one another most 'T is worthy your imitation And that which makes the state of marriage a Comfortable life 3. But to come to that which is the Crown of all the rest She was the desire of her husbands eyes and of his heart too very dear unto him in regard of her Gracious disposition And here I shall take the boldnesse to tell you that I shall deliver nothing upon the Information of others or uncertain reports but what I have observed upon mine own knowledge and long acquaintance And I well remember the Place where I stand and the Person that I sustain And though I am a Stranger yet I beseech ye beleeve my Profession I never loved to Prostitute either my tongue or the Pulpit to flatter the living or praise the dead that were unworthy in their lives But truely Beloved when Gods graces are eminent and exemplary in his Children they are not to be concealed that Posterity may be encouraged in the imitation of such virtues and God the Author glorified in such Saints Thus St Ambrose honoured Theodosius Thus Gregory Nazianzen remembred Athanasius Cyprian and St Basil Thus St Jerome commended Marcella Blesilla and other holy and Religious Ladies at their Funeralls And we doe it not without good warrant A woman that fears the Lord she shall be Praised Prov. 31. 30. 'T is Scripture Blessed are the Dead which Prov. 31. 30. dye in the Lord and we may beleeve the witness Even so saith the Spirit for they rest from their labours and their works follow them they follow her indeed Rev. 14. 13. and praise her in the gates Prov. 31. 32. Prov. 31. 32. First as there had been great care in her Education so God had endowed her with a great measure of Grace both to approve and apply all outward accessories to the attaining of the great and Principall End The Knowledge of God and Salvation of her soul It is a great argument of a most heavenly mind and I observe it to her honour I never came to see her either in the City or Country but as St Hierom writes of that noble Lady Blesilla Semper Hier. T. 1. de abit Bles aut prophetam aut Evangelium in manibus I found her with a Bible or some good book in her hands of which shee was able readily to give you a good accompt of her reading Secondly Where the fear of the Lord is seated in the heart there can be no Virtue no Grace wanting And truely Religion had so furnisht her with all kind of goodnesse that she made her life desired and her death honoured She was not contented with a narrow scantling of grace or a single Virtue but I must tell you There was a sweet conjunction and a Cohabitation of all moral Virtues and Divine Graces in her brest Religion that I named before the root of all had taken Possession of her Heart Charity of her Hands Those fruits of the spirit Joy and Peace and long-suffering Gal. 5 22. heavenly Patience Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance had fitted her for the Company of the Lambe Modesty the Grace of women and the honour of the sexe was one of her naturall endowments Ye might easily know her to be one of the daughters of Sarah by her very dress her inward adorning her self as St Peter cals it Her Chast conversation coupled with fear 1. Pet. 3. 2. The Ornament of a meek and a 1 Pet. 3. 2. quiet Spirit The Ornament of those Holy women that trusted in God as the Apostle again 1. Pet. 3. 4 5. The Ornament of obdience of 4 5. subjection the wives Ornament 1. Pet. 3. 5. 6. That 5 6. if there were nothing else she must for this be the desire of her Husbands eyes The Joy of his Heart The time will not suffer me to tell you of her sweet and winning behaviour her kind and Courteous Carriage No Rancour in her heart no Revenge in her hands The Language of her tongue was Blessing and the fruit of her lips were Prayers and Devotion And as she was a Saint her self so it was her study to make more Especially her dear and only daughter whom she did so season with the same liquor in those tender years that I beleeve she will savour the better of it ever after Prove another Saint I shall not acquaint you though she was but little of her sweet taking Carriage Habituated as it were in her by her Parents Pattern and Prudent regards of her for that was the observation with great applause of every eye and spake her a woman while yet a Child But I must go higher and tell you such was her mothers Religious care in her Education that before she was eight years old she had made her read so perfectly that she exceeded both her equalls and very many of far greater age yea I am confident even most of her own sexe But above all her chiefest endeavour was to make her skilfull in the Book of Books Gods own Book which though so young and tender as she was she had read through more then once or twice besides several other Books which to name were too great a Labour and a wasting of the time So that we may say of her as Saint Paul of Timothy 2 Tim. 3. 15. That from a Child 2 Tim. 3 15. she hath known the Scriptures And that she might understand them the better This Pious Mother had laid a good foundation instructed her in the Principles of Religion and made her expert in both the Catechismes And now though she be taken away from her daughter yet she hath left her a perpetuall Remembrance Her own Precepts and Pattern To take God for her guide and make Religion her Glory 'T is her honour indeed to be born of such a Mother whose Life was an Example and whose Example deserved to bee Remembred and may justly both incourage and Command her Imitation These are the Chief Colours in her Arms though she wants not others to Grace her Funeralls as ye see Those Blacks and Eschutcheons that are before your eyes she needs not to adorn her Herse Would ye have any Flowers as the Custom is Why she hath provided some her self as ye hear I have but tied them together to throw them