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A91806	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honorable Anne, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery who died March 22, 1675/6, and was interred April the 14th following at Appleby in Westmorland : with some remarks on the life of that eminent lady / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Carlile.	Rainbowe, Edward, 1608-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing R142; ESTC R11144	35,773	69

their preferment It was indeed observable that although she clothed her self in humble and mean attire yet like the wise and vertuous Woman Prov. 31. 21. She clothed her houshold with scarlet her allowance and gifts were so bountiful and so frequent to them that they might afford to clothe themselves in such Garb as best became the servants of so great and so good a Mistris And some of the Wise have thought it a great Errour and against the Rules of Oeconomics to be niggardly to good Servants to grow richer by such a thrift as makes the Servant 's back bare or belly empty to fill the Master's Purse But although in this she did follow the pattern given to all the Wise Prov. 31. 15. Give meat to her houshold and in such a plenty that Hospitality and Charity might have their portion with them while she her self was contented with any pittance little in quantity but enough to keep life and Soul together as we say Viands not costly or rare not far fetch'd and dear bought but such as were at hand parable and cheap Yet here I may be bold to tell you something to wonder at That she much neglected and treated very harshly one Servant and a very Antient one who served her from her Cradle from her Birth very faithfully according to her mind which ill usage therefore her Menial Servants as well as her Friends and Children much repined at And who this Servant was I have named before It was her body who as I said was a Servant most obsequious to her Mind and served her fourscore and six years It will be held scarce credible to say but it is a truth to averr that the Mistris of this Family was dieted more sparingly and I believe many times more homely and clad more coursly and cheaply than most of the Servants in her House her Austerity and Humility was seen in nothing more than if I may so allude to Coloss 2. 23. in neglecting of the body not in any honour to the satisfying of the Flesh Whether it were by long custom to prove with how little Nature may be content and that if the Appetite can be satisfied the Body may be fed with what is most common and cheap She taught us that Hunger and Health seek not Delicacies nor Fulness O that those who think they cannot live except they fare deliciously every day would but make trial one year how they may preserve their own health and save their poor brethren from starving by hunger or nakedness out of those superfluities and surfeits by which they destroy themselves That those who clothe themselves in Purple beyond what their station or estate requires would inquire into more particulars than I can yet inform them of this great Ladies Abstinencies and humble Attire and how successful they were to her long Life with Health and Reputation Some Texts out of this Book of the Proverbs the Parable of Dives and even this Ladies Example might supply the defective Application of a Sermon reform or shame Gluttony cause vain Gallantry to impose sumptuary Laws to it self sit content with home-bred fare home-growing and home-spun manufacture and not run to France or Persia to fetch form or matter for their Pride This opulent Lady might if she had pleased have fetched from far and at the dearest rates provisions for the flesh the Back or Belly but her greatest appetite was after Wisdom and she knew as well as Seneca that Corpora in sagina animae in mane Ep. 88. that in a fatted Body commonly dwells a lean and starved Soul and had heard of St. Gregorie's Aphorism Wisdom is seldom found in terra suaviter viventium it will not thrive so kindly in those territories where men delight to fare deliciously every day We may conclude that this great Matron who had such Command over her self knew how to Deny her self had learned our Saviour's lesson of Self-denial and St. Paul's Affirmation 1 Cor. 9. 27. might be hers Contundo corpus meum I keep under my Body and bring it into subjection These Abridgments were in this Lady a Mortification which Humility and Modesty concealed but which Wisdom and Resolution did put in practise I should now have done with that part of Oeconomy which respects her Servants but that she had another way of Building as to them namely building them up in the most holy Faith and also giving them their meat in due season that meat which our Saviour told his followers would not perish but indure to everlasting life this he told them of in the sixth Chapter of S. John when they made such haste to find him soon after he had fed them with the loaves and by this Meat in opposition to the perishing some Interpreters tell us he meant his Body in the Holy Sacrament the meat that would nourish them to everlasting life This spiritual meat this Lady wisely took care that it might be provided for all her houshold in due season that is at the three Seasons in the year when the Church requires it and once more in the year at the least besides those three great Festivals she made one Festival more for all that were fit to be invited or compelled as in the Gospel to come to that Supper And that all might be Fitted and well-prepared she took care that several Books of Devotion and Piety might be provided four times in the year that every one might take their choice of such Book as they had not before by which means those that had lived in her house long and she seldom turn'd any away might be furnish'd with Books of Religion and Devotion in every kind By these and more instances which it were easie to produce it appeared that this Religiously Wise Lady had deliberately put on Joshuah's holy resolution Josh 24. 15. I and my house will serve the Lord and might have the Eulogy which that memorable Queen pronounced of the best ordered Family in the World 1 Kin. 10. 8. Happy are thy men happy are these thy Servants which stand continually before thee But yet House and Family in this copious Allegory may comprehend more than I have named Besides Children and Servants Allyes Relations and even Friends were in some sort of her Family and Clientele The House of Saul and the House of David is taken for all that adhered to either House Indeed the whole Country considering the freedom of her Hospitality was in this sense her House nay even all of Quality that did pass through the Country It was held uncouth and almost an incivility if they did not visit this Lady and her House which stood conspicuous and open to all Commers and her Ladiship known to be easie of access to all addresses in that kind And seldom did any come under her roof who did not carry some mark and memorial of her House some Badge of her Friendship and Kindness she having always in store such things as she thought fit to present

things come Infancy Childhood Age Infirmities Souls know nor feel such things from their own pure principles these flow from Union with the Body the Crasis and Temperaments of the Elements otherwise I say souls would not Pati Senium souls of men and women are alike immortal 3. Women have been the Instruments to convey great blessings to their Generations nay by a woman was conveyed the Greatest Blessing to mankind our Blessed Saviour for whom all Generations Shall call her Blessed As God made the first Adam the Father of all mankind without the help of a woman and by taking woman out of mans flesh peopled the World so God took the second Adam out of woman without the help of a man from whence hath issued the Holy Seed which hath replenished the Church 4. Women have given as great examples of Vertue in every kind and in some kinds of Learning as men have done It were endless to instance or compare we find Women to have been adorned with as great Eulogies in Histories Sacred or Profane as men have been Hence we find them memorable in so many Addresses to them by Epistles and Panegyrics while they were living Celebrated by Elegies Funeral Orations and Epitaphs when they were dead Canonized placed in the highest degrees of happiness which Opinion Fame or Faith could give them after their death I need not bring to witness the most Learned of the Heathen Writers Tully Seneca Plutarch especially who has written a Book purposely of the Vertuous deeds of Women Greg. Nazianzen sets out the great praise of Gorgonia Basil of Matrina St. Ambrose of Marcellina St. Hierom of Eustochium Marcella Asella c. He and St. Austin directs many Epistles and some of their Books or Treatises to Eustochium Paulina Proba and others women pious and exercised in the learning which the Holy Scripture teaches Nay the beloved Apostle Evangelist and Divine St. John directs his Epistle to a Lady either to a particular Eminent Woman as the most averr or if to the Church Catholick as some would conjecture yet under the Scheme of a Lady a Woman What Honourable and frequent mention do we find in the Old and New Testament of Women Eminent for Prudence Constancy Courage Piety and all Graces as if the Female Spirit had had the ascendant and had been productive of the highest and most memorable Atchievements and Effects Most Languages and those who have set out the greatest things have commonly shadowed and represented them under the Hieroglyphics Figure and Scheme of a Woman The Earth it self the four parts of it Great Monarchies and Commonwealths as a Great Queen or Lady So the Scriprure frequently speaks of great Cities Daughter of Babylon of Tyre Danghter of Hierusalem of Zion Nay further thus the Church the Synagogue and Jewish thus the Church of Christ is expressed and represented a Spotless Virgin the Spouse of Christ the King's Daughter The Woman Rev. 12. 1. The wonder in Heaven cloathed with the Sun the Moon under her Feet with a Crown of Stars on her Head this a representation of the Church Jewish by some Christian by others Lastly all the Virtues Intellectual Moral Prudence Justice Nay even the Theological Faith Hope and Charity in the import of their names the Properties and things ascribed to them are represented under the Schemes and Figures of Women Even this Wisdom it self is so set out through this whole Book of the Proverbs Wisdom calls she lifts up her voice invites by sweet yet Powerful Arguments the simple and those that lack Understanding to be her Proselytes Say unto Wisdom thou art my Sister and call Vnderstanding Prov. 7. 4. thy Kinswoman And therefore this great Action and Blessing in this Text figuratively express'd by building the House is fitly here attributed to a wise Woman as the same thing had been before Chap. 9. 1. of Wisdom it self under the Figure of some magnificent Queen or Lady erecting some stately Fabric Wisdom hath builded her House she hath hewen out her seven Pillars i. e. she hath built as all the wise do with Symetry with Strength Beauty and Order That shews her a wise builder And that is the Epithet or Adjunct to the VVoman building in the Text wise every wise Woman Wise The word rendred from the Original literally is the wise of Women and so as Grammarians note admits some Figure here but we need not recede from our own Translation Wise the Subject is so denominated from the Habit Wisdom which is demonstrated by Arts suitable to it and gives the Title of Wise But neither this nor the Habit of Wisdom is to be taken in so strict a sense as Philosophers commonly do making it only one of those which they call the Intellectual Habits and to be only Speculative and so define it by knowledge of all things Divine and Humane from whence those who studied and sought after such Knowledge or Wisdom gain'd the Title of Philosophers Lovers and Searchers after Wisdom To omit what others restrain it unto who define Wisdom to be the knowledge of the highest things and their Causes It may suffice in this place to take wisdom in that large sense which this wise Author of the Book of the Proverbs doth throughout this Book chiefly in the beginning of it where he discovers the Heavenly root of the knowledge from whence the true wisdom grows namely the fear of the Lord. And this imports a knowledge of God such as hath always a religious and awful fear of him joyned with it and an endeavour to know and practise all things which conduce to his Worship and Glory and to mans happiness Plainly it is to be wise to Salvation Therefore this wisdom cannot be a single nor only a speculative Habit nor destitute of any of the other Intellectual or Moral Habits but they all minister unto it as means to attain the highest end God and Happiness but in the first place it may intimate those habits which more immediately perfect the Vnderstanding Knowledge Prudence Discretion Sagacity Sound Judgment and good Vnderstanding These are Wisdom's Companions or rather Handmaids always attending upon her and after these all moral Virtues will vinculo sororio as they say willingly follow Whoso is wise will seek after all these all Vertue these constitute a wise Man or Woman This is the wise Woman in the Text. This may answer the first Question Who Both why a Woman is here the instance and who is this wise Woman The Subject in the Proposition on which is founded this Assertion in the Text. That she buildeth her House And that brings in the second Query What is meant by building her House The Design of King Solomon in this Text being to set out the praise of a wise Woman or rather of Wisdom under the Scheme and Figure of a Woman He instances in that part of Wisdom or of Philosophy which is esteemed by all Philosophers to be most proper to that Sex namely the