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A57133	The churches triumph over death opend in a sermon preached Septemb. 11, 1660, at the funeral of the most religious and vertuous lady, the Lady Mary Langham / by Edward Reynolds ...	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1662 (1662)	Wing R1241; ESTC R11532	20,491	44

which we can forecast we many times stagger and falter about Israel confessed what God had done and that omnipotently He smote the rock and the waters gushed out and yet in the same breath they question his power can he furnish a Table in the wildernesse can he give bread also and provide flesh for his people Psalm 78. 19 20 22. Moses himself stagger'd when the Lord made a promise which seemed to exceed the power of ordinary causes Numb 11. 21 22. And therefore when God will confirm the faith of his servants he draweth them off from viewing the greatnesse and strangeness of the promises in themselves to the consideration of his power Is any thing too hard for the Lord Gen. 18. 14. I am the Lord the God of all flesh is there any thing too hard for me Jer. 32. 27. If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these dayes should it also be marvellous in mine eyes saith the Lord of Hosts Zach. 8. 6. And therefore in all cases of difficulty when sense and reason flesh and blood dictate nothing but despaire we should by faith look up to the truth of God promising and to the power and name of God giving being to his promis●s whose ways are higher then our wayes and his thoughts then our thoughts Isa. 55. 8. 9. So did Jehoshaphat 2 Chron. 20. 12. so David I Sam. 30. 6. so the Prophet Ezek. 37. 3. so Abraham Rom. 4. 19 20 21. so Peter Luke 5. 5. so we should all do when we walk in darkness and have no light still trust in the Name of the Lord and stay upon our God Isa. 50. 10. 2 We hence learn the Original of the Resurrection it is an Heavenly work as dew which comes from heaven to revive the grass The Lord resolves the lineage and genealogie of corn into Heaven Hos. 2. 21. takes it to himself to be the father of the dew Job 38. 28. It comes from him whose body did shed drops of heavenly dew in the garden and by them did slay death and revive he herbs of the grave We must labour therefore by an heavenly conversation to have our Bodies Temples of the holy Spirit that this Heavenly vertue when it hath drawn us out of our graves may then carry us to Heaven for as that which is earthly when it is out of its place never leaves descending till it goes to Earth so that which is Heavenly will never cease rising till it get to Heaven Earthly vapors may be drawn up but they fall again in rain and winde Wicked men though raised will fall again Any thing of heaven will go to heaven any thing of Christ will go to Christ. Concerning this dear and worthy Lay though my custom be to be very sparing in Funeral Elogies yet many things were in her so remarkable that the mentioning of them cannot but tend to the Edification of others I shall not mention her meere Exterrals The worth credit and dignity of her family The gentlenesse and sweetnesse of her disposition and all amiable accomplishments which rendred her lovely to those that knew her nor set forth the proportion between her and the present Text. I shall onely name such things as commended her to God as well as to men She looked after Heaven very young would frequently blesse God for the Religious Education which she had under her parents She was even then assaulted with Temptations unto Atheisme and to think that there was no God But took the best course to repell and resist them that the most experienced Christian could have directed her unto Immediately betaking her self by prayer unto that God whom she was tempted to deny She was a woman mighty in the Scriptures read them over once a year and searched after the sense of difficult places out of the several Annotations before her She was as it were a Concordance directing usually to the Book and Chapter where any place of Scripture mentioned in discourse was to be found She was constant in reading substantial Authours of dogmatical and practical Divinity and by that means grew greatly acquainted with the whole Body of wholsome doctrine She was unweariedly constant in the performance of private duties in so much that it is verily believed by him who had best reason to know it that for twelve years together she never intermitted her morning and evening addresses unto the Throne of Grace When she was suddenly surprized with the pangs of this last child she ran into her closet to be first delivered of her prayer and to poure out her soul to God before she was delivered of her child She had a singular delight in the publick Ordinances and was a most constant frequenter of them with very serious and devout attention calling her memory to an account when she came home and if any particular slipt from her forgotten she would enquire of her husband in bed to recover it for her She left behind her in her closet a paper book wherein with her own hand she had collected divers general Directions for an holy spending of the day with several particular meanes for the faithful observance of those General Rules She highly honoured Holinesse in the poorest and meanest persons and would frequently with some decent and modest excuse get off from unprofitable impertinent discourse that she might have her fill of more edifying conference with such in whom she had learned of David to place her delight For divers months before her death she was wonderfully improved heavenward as those about her observed not regarding the world nor letting any vain word drop from her and her countenance many times after her coming out of her closet seemed to have strange impressions of her conversing with God shining in it as some conversant with her have professed to observe She was greatly adorned with Meeknesse Modesty and Humility which are graces in the sight of God of great price When one wish'd her ioy with the Honour lately come to her she answered That there was a greater Honour which she looked after which would bring with it more solid joy She alwayes expressed much Honour and Reverence to her parents in all comely and dutiful comportment towards them which much endeared them unto her Full of conjugal affection to her dear husband revoking with an ingenuous Retraction any word which might fall from her which she judged lesse becoming that Honour and Reverence which she did bear to him When he was ingaged upon publick concernments and more particularly when he cross'd the seas to wait on his Sacred Majesty she daily put up such ardent and heavenly petitions unto God for him as caused those about her to conclude it impossible that the husband of so many prayers and teares should meet with any miscarriage Wonderful watchful over his Bodily health and spying out distempers in him before he discovered them himself Earnestly desiring what is now come to passe that he might survive her that she might never know the wound of a deceased Husband She had a more then ordinary care in the Education of her children holding them close to the reading and committing to memory both Scripture and Catechisme wherein by her diligence they made a very strange progress a pregnant instance whereof to speak nothing of her children yet living was her eldest son who went to heaven in his childhood about the age of five or six years of whose wonderful proficiency in the knowledge of God an exact account is given by a grave and godly Divine in the printed Sermon which he preached at his Funeral She was very affable and kind to her servants specially encouraging them unto holy duties who have professed themselves very much benefited in their spiritual concernments by the discourses which she hath had with them She was very charitable and ready to do good to poor distressed persons specially those of the houshold of faith visiting edifying and comforting them and with her liberality relieving their necessities acknowledging Gods free and rich mercy in allowing her a plentiful portion of outward blessings and that she was not in the low condition of those whom her charity relieved In her sicknesse and extremities of travel and other pains she earnestly pleaded Gods promises of healing of easing of refreshing those that were weak and heavy laden acknowledging her self so to be not in body onely but in soul too and was full of holy and servent ejaculations Yea when the disease affected her head and disturbed her expressions yet even then her speeches had still a tincture of Holinesse and savour'd of that spirit wherewith her heart was seasoned She advised those about her to set about the great and one necessary work of their souls while they were in health assuring them that in sicknesse all the strength they had would be taken up about that She desired her husband to read to her in her sicknesse Mistris Moores Evidences for salvation set forth in a Sermon preached by a Reverend Divine at her Funeral meditating with much satisfaction upon them And when some cloud overcast her soul she desired her husband to pray with her and seconded him with much enlargement of heart and blessed God for the recovery of light again Thus lived and died this excellent Lady a worthy patterne for the great ones of her sex to imitate Such works will follow them into another world where none of the vanities of this no Pleasures no Pomp no Luxury no Bravery no Balls no Enterludes no Amorous or Complemental discourses or other like Impertinencies of the world will have any admittance The more seriously you walk with God and plie the concernments of your immortal souls living as those that resolve to be saved the greater will be your treasure of comfort in your death and of glory in another life whereas all your other delights and experiments for content will expire and give up the Ghost in Solomons vanity and vexation of Spirit The Lord make us all wise unto salvation FINIS Irenaeus lib. 5. cap. 15. 30. Tertul. de Resurrect c. 32. Hieron Cyril in loc Aug. de Civ dei lib. 20. cap. 21. Calvin Institut l. 2. c. 10. sect 21. l. 3. c. 25. sect 4. Calvin Sasbout 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Rev. 11. 3. 12. 6. Gen. 12. 13. Gen. 20. 2. Isa. 8. 13. Psal. 119. 51. Jer. 20. 8.