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A48659	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of Mrs. Ann Margetson, a young lady, under the age of fourteen years In the church of Clerkenwell: on Sunday, November the 12th. 1693. By Ralph Lambert, chaplain to the Right Honourable, the Earl of Montague, and his lady, Her Grace, the Dutchess of Albemarle; and rector of Grindon in Staffordshire.	Lambert, Ralph, 1665?-1731.	1693 (1693)	Wing L243A; ESTC R222009	11,977	34

this a most seasonable Topick when so many of this young Ladies Friends and Relations are present I cannot in Justice to a most devout young Virgin and I had almost said in charity to all that hear me forbear my weak endeavours to make the subject I have insisted on pertinent and useful upon her account to Strangers 3. And therefore I shall in the third and last place by a particular application to the subject before us shew what strong and violent temptations we have to unbounded sorrow if the word of the Lord had not come unto us also and said that we should neither weep nor mourn neither should our Tears run down The departed Virgin Saint the elevated subject of this sad solemnity had not attain'd to the age of fourteen Years when the Angel of the Lord found her fit for Heaven and therefore took her away in the blooming of her perfections to present her a spotless glorious Soul to his and her great Lord and Master And perhaps it may raise admiration in some to think what can be said of a person so young as to need a caution against immoderate Grief before we dare to attempt her Character I am not ignorant how usual it is on these occasions to talk Hyperbolically and to magnifie the smallest glimmerings of virtue into the bulk of perfect and solid habits but I must reckon my self secure from any danger of out-stripping my Subject as she was from being equal'd by any competitor of her Years in the paths of Religion and Virtue And I have just reason to fear falling far short in the Description of her Divine Excellencies which nothing but being a constant witness of them both in her health and sickness could enable me to display tolerably or give any real and just Idea of them And to begin with those which were and which she thought less properly her own Nor should be mention'd at all if her circumstances as a Person of quality and a stranger did not seem to extort it She had the advantage of an honourable parentage both by her Father and Mother by him being the Grandehild of the late Lord Arch Bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland And by her Grandchild to the late Lord Viscount Charlemont of Ireland Known best in his own Country by the inseparable Epithet of The good Lord Charlemont This noble descent she yet made much more so by adding many New Virtues to those which are hereditary to both those Families She was born to a very plentiful Fortune which I name merely to shew that she was never once exalted with the thoughts of it And tho' it has been for some time much at her own disposal she desir'd to be distinguish'd by it no other way than in taking very frequent opportunities of doing good and I have never observ'd her more chearful on any occasion than when it came in her way to give Alms to the poor I shall add to these exterior qualities that of a Body most perfectly beautiful adorn'd with such and so many delightful Elegancies that I think very few of her Years could pretend to be her Paralles and wholly without any of those Arts and Affectations by which too many fancy they improve their Makers Handywork and yet so far was she from assuming any thing to her self upon the score of this or any other endowment that I never heard any one mention'd as her Rival to whom she did not heartily and readily submit Nor was she ever pleas'd that I saw with those insinuating impertinencies so powerful upon many others of being told that she was extraordinary handsome No all her care and sollicitude about her Body was to make it a Temple fit for the reception of the Holy Ghost But I dwell too long on these outward transient accomplishments when so many internal excellencies deserve a more particular and suitable ●●argement than I am able to give them Her Wit was great and solid Not subject to those flashes of Repartee and Rallery which some young Ladies esteem to be the Abstract and sum of all ingenuity and place their whole endeavours to gain a pert canting Faculty which when obtain'd makes them despis'd and hated But hers was like that of her Saviour and it was all laid out on that saving knowledg how to grow in Wisdom and Piety and Favour with God and Man To her God she never neglected her Duty for besides frequent occasional devotions she paid a constant Sacrifice of Prayers and Praises Morning and Evening to her Creator Nor was it a duty perform'd only for custom and form's sake as it is by many at her Years not sensible of better motives but having the advantages of an excellent example and education Her devotions were all Solemn Fervent and serious and it was her constant custom after having pour'd out her Soul to God in Prayer to read the Psalms and Lessons and publick Service of the day before she address'd her self to any other employment And then she did not apply her self to those diversions which are the usual entertainments of her Years and her Fortune But the greatest part of her time was divided between her Book and her Needle And 't is strange to observe her choice of Authors being not restrain'd from the use of any except such as were sinful But her Piety carried her principally to the perusal of Religious and moral Books in these she busied her self with the greatest pleasure and I think never had the patience to read through one Play or Romance tho' sufficiently qualified to apprehend all that was witty and pleasant and to distinguish what was useful in them This fixt and constant employment of her time had begot in her such due and lively apprehensions of the Majesty of God that she fear'd no evil in competition with that of committing any wilfull offence against him She had almost a natural antipathy to Lying nor was her passion against any person ever rais'd so high as when she was provok'd by being told a palpable and impudent Lye She had an equal aversion to the Epidemical sin of railing and could not with any patience endure to hear another secretly and injuriously traduc'd and ever would extenuate what was hardly said if the case could bear it Such a veneration she had for the Name of God that as I never heard her speak with the least shadow of Irreverence in matters relating to him so I am sure she never had the least reverence for any whom she thought guilty of that presumption And as it was scarce possible at her Years to have a more perfect knowledg of the duty she ow'd to her Maker so she was no less scrupulously careful in observing it allowing for humane infirmities And thus much for her Duty to God As for her obedience to the Commands of the second Table never any shew'd it more intirely and more chearfully Since the Death of her Father * Major Margetson kill'd at the first