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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A05056	Mary sitting at Christs feet A sermon preached at the funerall of Mris Mary Swaine, the wife of Mr William Swaine, at Saint Buttolphs without Aldersgate. Declaring her christian life, and comfortable death, for the encouraging of all christian gentlewomen, and others, to walke in the steps of this religious gentlewoman already departed. By Lancelot Langhorne, preacher of the word of God.	Langhorne, Lancelot.	1611 (1611)	STC 15197; ESTC S105859	10,285	46

she is commended That shee did choose the better part which shall not be taken from her In her wisedome two things 1. The Action 2. The Obiect The action That shee did choose the obiect the better part which should not be taken from her In the Obiect two things 1. The Excellency 2. The Perpetuity The excellency that it was Better The perpetuity It should neuer be taken from her In each of these three things shall be handled 1. Maries Commendation 2. Maries Imitation 3. Our Application Maries Commendation laid downe in the Text That shee did choose the better part which shall not be taken c. Maries Imitation the same with the Text That shee likewise hath chosen the better part which shall not c Our Application taught from the Text That wee also make choice of the better part which shall not c. That so wee may make these two Maries our examples to follow in the way to Heauen that thereby wee may find fauour with God and men That with Mary we may liue in Gods feare and with Mary die in Gods fauour of these in their order and first of the person approued The person approued is named by Christ Mary we finde but three Maries spoken of in the Gospell and all for good Mary the mother of Iesus Mary Magdalene which as most affirme is this Mary in my Text and Mary the mother of Iames and Ioses One beares Christ in her wombe the other washes his feete with her teares and wipes them with the haire of her head Her Commendation and here sits at Christs feete the third with the two other stand by his crosse when he is crucified and seeke him in his graue after hee was buried Wee finde not so many vertuous woemen of any other name in Scripture not that the name makes them the holier but that their vertues make the remembrance of their names blessed I could stand vpon the letters of the name if it were so profitable Maria. M standing vpon three bases or feete M to signifie their stedfast faith in the blessed Trinity one God and three persons A a an interiection of sorrowing their repentance R r with two branches like a tree the sweete fruite of their vertue and holinesse I i the least of the letters Their great humility A a the first letter in the Alphabet and the last in the name Their charity the cheifest of all vertues because it g 1. Cor. 13 13. 2 Maries imitation Luk. 11.27.28 continues last This Mary paralels the other Maries She bore Christ though not in her wombe yet which is more in her heart often shee washed his feete with the teares of repentance stood at his Crosse to the washing away of her sinnes in his bloud often she sought him in his graue to the mortifying of her sinnes and daily sought him at the right hand of God in Heauen for the pardon of her sinnes we shall finde more vertues in her life then letters in her name Mary by interpretation is as much as Stella maris the Starre of the Sea which standing immoueable in the midst of heauen doth direct the Mariners As the Starres are fixed in the volume of the heauens so Mary in my Text is a fixed Starre in the volume of Gods written booke A direction for all Christians to the Hauen of happinesse Though this Mary presented to our eies be not in Gods written booke yet in the Lambs booke of life her name is written in Heauen A Star for purity of heart A Starre for the shining light of life and conuersation A fixed Starre for her heart was fixed vpon the Lord yet neuer moued backward nor neuer stood still but as The Sunne in the firmament reioyced to runne her course 3 Our Application For our Application Let vs become shining Starres grace our names with vertues that with Mary the memoriall of our names may bee blessed Wisedome as Augustine saith consisteth cheifly in Choosing and Refusing In choosing the Good and Refusing the Euill The first thing in her wisedome is Elegit The Action Shee hath chosen But how was it in Maries power to choose the better part Howsoeuer in ciuill actions we haue Free-will to choose or refuse yet as the same actions are good we haue no ability at all in our selues Of our selues wee are not able to thinke one good thought saith the Apostle ● Her commendation Power we haue to thinke but no power to thinke that which is good To come to Church to heare the word is a Ciuill Action we haue power to come or not to come but to come with a desire and loue to the word to glorifie God for the sauing of our soules by Nature we haue no power at all Therefore in that Mary chooseth it is Actus Naturae an act of Nature but in that shee chooseth the better part it is Actus Gratiae an act of Grace He that commends her for her choice gaue her power to choose the beter part Elegit as one saith id est Deus volentem trahit coronat sua dona in nobis vt dicamur fecisse elegisse nos quae ipse in nobis est operatus She hath chosen that is God drew her being made willing and he doth crowne his giftes in vs that we may be said to haue done and to haue chosen those things which he himselfe hath wrought in vs. Vnlesse God did first choose vs we should neuer choose him Yee haue not chosen mee but I haue chosen you saith Christ 1. Ioh. 4.19 We loue him because he loued vs first saith his Apostle For euen as the heat of the Sunne falling vpon our body encreaseth our heat so the feeling of Gods loue towards vs makes vs loue God againe His election of vs makes vs elect and choose him The word in the Originall is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hath chosen that she did not embrace the pleasures of this world all her life and made choice of the better part at her death they that do deferre it so long it is to be feared it will be too late for Sera poenitentia nòn est vera poenitentia Late repentance is seldome true repentance but Elegit Shee hath chosen So this Mary being a chosen and elect vessell of God 2 Maries imitation sanctified from the Wombe by Gods grace did choose the better part not at her Death but all the time of her pilgrimage shee led an Angelicall and holy life This Good part was her Treasure all her Life and at her Death as you shall heare shee had the comfort of it For our application 3 Our application let vs not wallow in the pleasure of sinne all our life and thinke it shall bee in our power at our Death to choose the better part but with this Mary let euery one of vs prepare prouide for the time to come be sure that we can say euery one