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A66656	Eurēka, Eurēka the virtuous woman found, her loss bewailed, and character examined in a sermon preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678, at the funeral of ... Mary, countess dowager of Warwick, the most illustrious pattern of a sincere piety, and solid goodness his age hath produced : with so large additions as may be stiled the life of that noble lady : to which are annexed some of her ladyships pious and useful meditations / by Anthony Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Warwick, Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. Occasional meditations upon sundry subjects.	1678 (1678)	Wing W301; ESTC R233189	74,039	235

born a Lady and a Virtuosa both Seventh Daughter of that eminently Honourable Richard the First Earl of Cork who being born a private Gentleman and younger Brother of a younger Brother to no other Heritage than is expressed in the Device and Motto which his humble Gratitude inscribed on all the Palaces he built God's Providence mine Inheritance By that Providence and his diligent and wise Industry raised such an Honour and Estate and left such a Family as never any Subject of these three Kingdoms did and that with so unspotted a reputation of integrity that the most invidious scrutiny could find no blot though it winnowed all the methods of his Rising most severely which our good Lady hath often told me with great content and satisfaction This Noble Lord by his prudent and pious Consort no less an Ornament and Honour to their Descendants than himself was blessed with five Sons of which he lived to see four Lords and Peers of the Kingdom of Ireland And a Fifth more than these Titles speak a Sovereign and Peerless in a larger Province that of universal nature subdued and made obsequious to his inquisitive mind And eight Daughters And that you may remark how all things were extraordinary in this great Personage it will I hope be neither unpleasant nor impertinent to add a short Story I had from our Lady 's own mouth Master Boyl who was then a Widdower came one Morning to wait upon Sir Jeoffry Fenton at that time a great Officer of State in the Kingdom of Ireland who being engaged in business and not knowing who it was who desired to speak with him a while delayed him access which time he spent pleasantly with his young Daughter in her Nurses Arms. But when Sir Jeoffrey came and saw whom he had made attend somewhat long he civilly excused it But Master Boyl replyed he had been very well entertained and spent his time much to his satisfactiou in courting his Daughter if he might obtain the Honour to be accepted for his Son-in-law At which Sir Jeoffrey smiling to hear one who had been formerly married move for a Wife carried in Arms and under two years old asked him if he would stay for her to which he frankly answered him he would and Sir Jeoffrey as generously promised him he should then have his full consent And they both kept their words honourably And by this virtuous Lady he had thirteen Children ten of which he lived to see honourably married and died a Grandfather by the youngest of them Nor did she derive less honour from the collateral than the descending Line being Sister by Soul and Genius as well as Blood to these great Personages whose illustrious unspotted and resplendent Honour and Virtue and whose useful Learning and accurate Pens may attone and expiate as well as shame the scandalous Blemishes of a debauched and the many impertinencies of a scribling Age. 1. Richard the truly Right Honourable Loyal Wise and Virtuous Earl of Burlington and Cork whose life is his fairest and most laudable Character 2. The Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orery that great Poet great States-man great Soldier and great Every-thing which merits the name of Great or Good 3. Francis Lord Shannon whose Pocket-Pistol as he stiles his Book may make as wide Breaches in the Walls of the Capital as many Canons 4. And that Honourable and well known name R. Boyl Esquire that profound Philosopher accomplished Humanist and excellent Divine I had almost said Lay-Bishop as one hath stiled Sir H. Savil whose Works alone may make a Library The Female Branches also if it be lawful so to call them whose Virtues were so masculine Souls knowing no difference of Sex by their Honours and Graces by mutual reflections gave and received lustre to and from her The Eldest of which the Lady Alice was married to the Lord Baramore The Second the Lady Sarah to the Lord Digby of Ireland The Third the Lady Laetitia to the eldest Son of the Lord Goring who died Earl of Norwich The Fourth the Lady Joan to the Earl of Kildare not only Primier Earl of Ireland but the ancientest House in Christendom of that degree the present Earl being the six and twentieth or seven and twentieth of Lineal Descent And as I have heard it was that great Antiquary King Charles the First his observation that the three anientest Families in Europe for Nobility were the Veres in England Earls of Oxford and the Fitz-Geralds in Ireland Earls of Kildare and Momorancy in France 'T is observable that the present young Earl of Kildare is a mixture of the Blood of Fitz-Geralds and Veres The Fifth the Lady Katharine who was married to the Lord Vicount Ranelaugh and Mother to the present generous Earl of Ranelaugh of which Family I could have added an eminent Remark I meet with in Fuller's Worthies This Lady's Character is so signalized by her known Merit among all Persons of Honour that as I need not so I dare not attempt beyond this one word She was our Lady's Friend-Sister The Sixth the Lady Dorothy Loftus The Seventh the number of Perfection which shut up and crown'd this noble Train for the Eighth the Lady Margaret died unmarried was our excellent Lady Mary married to Charles Earl of Warwick of whom if I should use the Language of my Text I should neither despair their pardon nor fear the reproach of rudeness Many Daughters all his Daughters did virtuously but thou She was Great by her Marriage into the Noble Neighbouring Family which yet received accession to its Grandure by the lustre of her Name and Virtues But she needed neither borrowed Shades nor reflexive Lights to set her off being personally great in all natural Endowments and Accomplishments of Soul and Body Wisdom Beauty Favour Virtue Great by her Tongue for never Woman used one better speaking so gracefully promptly discreetly pertinently holily that I have oft admired the edifying words that proceeded from her Mouth Great by her Pen as you may Ex pede Herculem discover by that little taste of it the world hath been happy in the hasty fruit of one or two interrupted hours after Supper which she professed to me with a little regret when she was surprised with it's sliding into the world without her knowledge or allowance and wholly beside her expectation Great by being the greatest Mistress and Promotress not to say the Foundress and Inventress of a new Science The Art of obliging in which she attain'd that Sovereign Perfection that she reigned over all their hearts with whom she did converse Great in her nobleness of Living and in her free and splendid Hospitality Great in the unparallel'd sincerity of constant faithful condescending Friendship and for that law of kindness which dwelt in her Lips and Heart Great in her dexterity of Management Great in her quickness to apprehend the difficulties of her Affairs and where the stress and pinch lay to untie the Knot and loose and ease them Great

this our noble Mary or devoted themselves more unreservedly to God's love and fear and service learning to be good in very good earnest and to encrease and grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2. To promote this like the wise man in the Gospel Mat. 7.24 She dug deep to lay her foundations on a rock She made a strict scrutiny into the state of her Soul and weighed the reasons of her choice in the balance of the Sanctuary And with the other Builder in the Gospel sate down and considered with her self what it might cost to finish her spiritual edifice and whether she were furnished to defray that charge And also whether the grounds of her hope were firm and such as would not abuse and shame her and her evidences for Heaven such as would bear the Test and Scripture would approve And this she drew up at large with her own hand judiciously soberly modestly humbly and about twenty years since did me the honour with greatest secrecy to read it to me and obliged me with all freedom and faithfulness to give her my judgment of it which I could not but do with much approbation And this I doubt not remains amongst her many excellent Papers Having thus put her hand to the plough she looked not back but minded Religion as her business indeed and never gave suspicion of trifling in so serious a work 3. Therefore for her practice of it it was her great design to walk worthy of God in all well-pleasing to adorn her professed subjection to the Gospel by a conversation becoming it and to shew forth his virtues and praises who had called her to his marvellous Light First then she was circumspectly careful to abstain from all appearance of evil and in all doubtful cases 't was her rule to take the furest side for she would say I am sure 't will do me no hurt to let them alone Though therefore none were further from censuring others or usurping judgment over their liberties yet for her self she would never allow her self the addition of artificial handsomness used neither paint nor patch and was pleased with a saying of one of her spiritual Friends upon the reading the Book which apologizes for it O Lord I thank thee that thou gavest me not wit enough to write such a Book unless withal thou hadst given me Grace enough not to write it Neither would she play at any Games because beside many other inconveniences she judged them great wasters of precious time of which she was always very thrifty And though she was known to be a woman of good understanding yet were there three things which were too hard for her and she would confess she could not comprehend them First How those who professed to believe an Eternal Estate and it's dependance upon the short inch of time could complain of times lying as a dead commodity on their hands which they were troubled how to drive away Secondly how Christians who would seem devout at Church could laugh at others for being serious out on 't and burlesque the very Bible and turn Religion into Ridicule Thirdly How knowing men could take care of souls and seldom come amongst them never look after them And though in the forenamed particulars she was content only to give example of forbearance yet from the Play-house since the Stage hath taken so great liberty she would openly dehort her Friends with greatest earnestness She very many years since began to keep a Diary and consulted two whom she used to call her Soul-Friends and ever esteemed such her best Friends concerning the best manner of performing it This at first she used to perform every Evening but finding that inconvenient by reason of her Lords long illness which gave her many inevitable diversions and interruptions at that season she changed it into the quiet silent morning always rising early And therein amongst other things recorded the dayly frame of her own heart towards God his signal providences to her self and sometimes towards others his gracious manifestations to her Soul returns of prayer temptations resisted or prevailing or whatever might be useful for caution or encouragement afford her matter of thankfulness or humiliation And by this means she had arrived at such experience that she could conclude at least make strong conjectures of the events of things she spread before the Lord in prayer by the frame of her own heart in the performance of it as I could instance in particulars if it were convenient She used to call Prayer Hearts-ease as she often found it and though her modesty was such and she was so far from a vain affected ostentation of her gifts I cannot name one person with whom she prayed yet can I say she was as well mighty and fervent in prayer as constant and abundant in it for she sometimes using her voice hath been over-heard and her own Lord knowing her hours of prayer once conveyed a grave Minister into a secret place within hearing whom if I should name I suppose would not be denyed to be a competent Judge who much admired her humble fervency for she praying prayed and when she used not an audible voice her sighs and groans would eccho from her Closet at good distance And the very day before she died she was shut up above an hour which she spent in fervent private prayer notwithstanding her indisposition and indeed prayer was her very element in which she lived and actually died and 't was as the vital breath of her Soul and the wing that wafted it immediately to Heaven But if she exceeded her self in any thing as much as she excelled others in most things 't was in meditation this was her Master-piece for she usually walked two hours dayly in the morning to meditate alone in which divine art she was an accomplished Mistress both in set and occasional in the first chusing some select subject which she would press upon her heart with intensest thoughts till she had drawn out all its juice and nourishment and for the second like a spiritual Bee she would suck Honey from all occurrences whole Volumes of which she hath left behind her After this consecrating of the day with reading Scriptures Lectione assidua meditatione diuturna pectus suum Bibliothecam secerat Christi unde hic fervor aisi ex amere Dei unde legis Christi indefessa meditatio nisi ex defiderio ejus qui legem dedit prayer and meditation a short dressing time and ordering her domestick Affairs or reading some good Book spent the remainder of the morning till Chappel-prayers from which she was never absent and at which she was ever reverend and a devout example to her whole Family She was a strict observer of the Lords-day which is truly called the Hedge and Fence of Religion and though some please themselves to call this Judaizing to excuse the liberties they indulge themselves I am sure our Church

and took the Knife to slay his Son thou calledst from Heaven to him Lay not thy hand upon the lad This greatly shames me to think how slow and backward I was to yield to thy gracious commands and calls to devote my self intirely to thee in a course of strict Religion and to present my Body as a living Sacrifice holy acceptable to thee for fear of slaying my Isaac loosing all my joy and delight as if I might never have been merry after my so doing But O Lord I must acknowledge I was afraid where no fear was For I find by blest experience Religion the being laid on thine Altar neither kills nor burns up our delights only confines and tames them For as I read in the Parable of the prodigal though he had had much mad jollity before he never knew what true joy was till he came to himself and returned to his Father for 't was then and not till then that he and his began to be truly merry REFLECT XII Mart. 7.21 Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven O Lord when I read that 't is not calling upon thee Lord Lord but the obeying thee as such by doing of thy Will that will give entrance into thy Kingdom O Lord how desirous am I to live my Prayers And as I every day pray as thou hast taught me that thy Will may be done So Lord inable me to do thy Will even when 't is most cross to my own Let thy Will commanding be my will obeying O help me to resign my will wholly to thine make me chearfully to do and patiently to suff●r thy Will Lord let they holy Will be done by me and upon me FINIS Imprimatur Geo. Thorp Rmo in Christo P. D. Domino Gulielmo Archiep. Cant. A Sacris Domesticis May 31. 1678. A CATALOGUE OF Some Books Printed for and Sold by Nathanael Ranew at the Kings Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard Folio's THe Works of Josephus with great diligence Revised and Amended according to the excellent French Translation of Monsieur Arnauld d' Andilly Also the Embassy of Philo Judeus to the Emperor Caius Caligula never translated before with the References of the Scripture A new Map of the Holy Land and divers Copper Plates serving to illustrate the History The Principles of Christian Religion with a large Body of Divinity methodically and familiarly handled by way of Question and Answer for the use of Families Together with Immanuel or the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God by the most Reverend James Vsher late Archbishop of Armagh To which is added in this seventh Edition twenty Sermons preached at Oxford before his Majesty and elsewhere Perused and published by his Lordships Chaplains with the Life of the Author containing many remarkable Passages and an Alphabetical Table never before extent Quarto's The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man's Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ or Discourses wherein is shewed how the Wisdom Mercy Justice Holiness Power and Truth of God are Glorified in that great and blessed Work by William Bates D. D. in quarto Of Wisdom three Books written in French by Peter Charron Doctor of Law in Paris Tranflated by Sampson Lennard in quarto A Sermon preached at High-Wickham in the County of Bucks wherein the Ministers Duty is remembred their Dignity asserted Man's Reconciliation with God urged by Samuel Gardner Chaplain to his Majesty in quarto The Norfolk Feast A Sermon preached at St. Dunstans being the day of the Anniversary Feast for that County by VVilliam Smythes Minister in that County in quarto The Speech of Sr. Audley Mervyn Knight His Majesties prime Serjeant of Law and Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland delivered to his Grace Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the 13th Febr. 1662. in the Presence Chamber in the Castle in Dublin Octavo's EYPHKA EYPHKA The Virtuous Woman found Her Loss Bewailed and Character Exemplified in a Sermon preached at Felsted in Essex April 30. 1678. At the Funeral of that most Excellent Lady the Right Honourable and Eminently Religious and Charitable Mary Countess Dowager of VVarwick the most Illustrious Pattern of Sincere Piety and solid Goodness this Age hath produced With so large Additions as may be stiled The Life of that Noble Lady By Anthony VValker D. D. and Rector of Fyfield in the same County To which are Annexed some of her Ladiships Pious and Useful Meditations A worthy Communicant or a Treatise shewing the due order of Receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By Jeremiah Dyke in Octavo The Way to Salvation or the Doctrine of Life Eternal laid down from several Texts of Scripture opened and applied fitted to the capacity of the meanest Chirstian and useful for all Families by John Hieron in Octavo Solitude improved by Divine Meditation or a Treatise proving the Duty Demonstrating the Necessity Excellency Usefulness Nature Kinds and Requisites of Divine Meditation First intended for a Person of Honour and now Published for general use by Nathanael Ranew sometime Minister of Felsted in Essex in octavo Moral Vertues Baptized Christian or the Necessity of Morality among Christians by William Shelton of Bursted Magna in Essex in Octavo The Burning of London in the Year 1666. Commemorated and Improved in a hundred and ten Meditations and Contemplations by Samuel Rolle Minister of the Gospel and sometime Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge in octavo Natural Theology or the Knowledge of God from the Works of Creation Accommodated and Improved to the Service of Christianity by Matthew Barker in octavo Christ and the Covenant the Work and way of Meditation God's Return to the Soul or Nation together with his preventing Mercy Delivered in Ten Sermons by VVilliam Bridge sometime Minister of Yarmouth The Sinfulness of Sin and the Fulness of Christ delivered in two Sermons by the same Author The Vanity of the World by Ezekiel Hopkins in octavo The Souls Ascension in the state of Separation by Isaac Loeffs in octavo An Explication of the Assemblies lesser Catechism by Samuel VVinney in octavo Iter Boreale with other select Poems being an exact Collection of all hitherto extant and some added never before Printed by Robert VVild D. D. in octavo A Synopsis of Quakerism or a Collection of the Fundamental Errors of the Quakers by Thomas Danson in octavo A Poetical Meditation wherein the Usefulness Excellency and several perfections of Holy Scriptures are briefly hinted by John Clark in octavo Twelves Correction Instruction or a Treatise of Affliction first conceived by way of private Meditation afterwards digested into certain Sermons and now published for the help and comfort of humble suffering Christians by Tho Case in Twelves The Poor doubting Christian drawn to Christ by Thomas Hooker of New-England in Twelves Ovids Metamorphosis in English verse by George Sandy's in Twelves Aesop's Fables in Prose with Cuts in Twelves The Principles of Christian Religion with a brief Method of the Doctrine thereof Corrected and Enlarged by the Reverend James Vsher Archbishop of Armagh in Twelves A plain Discourse of the Mercy of having Godly Parents with the Duties of ildren that have such Parents by M. Goddard in Twelves 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Novum Testamentum huic editioni omnia Difficiliorum vocabulorum Themata quae in Georgii Passoris Lexico Grammatice resolvuntur in Margine apposuit Carolus Hoole in eorum scilicet gratiam qui primi Graecae Linguae Tyrocinia faciunt in Twelves