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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

men Philosophers and Moralists Aristotle himself has given it a place and name of a particular Science amongst those which are the Prudential Oeconomy directing in it by as good Rules and Precepts as in any other in any part of Moral Philosophy And it is indeed as necessary that the World should be well instructed in this as in any other Science in the whole Circle For Mankind which is made up of single Persons could not have been supported if they had been to live always separate and single and not formed themselves into Society which supposes Government made up of Order and that supposes subordination It is true every particular man hath a government in himself is a King in Plato's sense hath a Body and Soul Passions and Members Words and Thoughts under his Power and Government Ethics Moral Philosophy teaches this Art of Self-government But man being intended for Society the first rank of that is a Family 't is the Science of Oeconomy teaches to rule that well to Order the house Now in this House the Subordinate in it are chiefly the Children Servants and Retainers And to continue the Allegory the Building of this House is the Governing the Providing for the Nourishing and Maintaining the Ordering and Well-disciplining of these by certain Rules of which Wise men have said much in their Books and of which we find much in the Book of God this Book of the Proverbs most copiously So also in the New Testament Ephes 5. ch 6. Coll. 3. 4. Tit. 2. and dispersedly in several other Places And certainly good Oeconomy or right ordering of a Family is a noble and profitable Art to be learned by much prudent thinking and consideration Although the World think little of it and few study this Art deeming themselves naturally wise enough or inspired with the knowledg of this if they have means and conveniencies to set up a Family they govern it by rote not by Rule if they be rich enough to support it they mind not to govern morally otherwise than by Had-I-wist hand over head as things fall out contingently I mean as to the Moral or Religious part of governing live like Nomades or Tartars those that live at random Now this neglect of Government in a Family breeds the greatest mischief in the World spreads disorder over the face of the Earth Families ill-ordered will make ill-governed Cities and these mis-govern'd will fill the whole Common-wealth and Kingdom with disorder and confusion Families being the first Principles of Bodies publick the Seminaries which stock Cities out of which Kingdoms and Common-wealths do grow There is no greater cause of decay to the Common-wealth nor bane to the Church than want of Discipline and good Order in Families especially as to one branch of them mis-governing and ill-educating of Children who are the first Elements of Cities and Kingdoms Undisciplined and bad Children will hardly make good men nor honest Common-wealths-men nor well-principled Subjects of which a Kingdom consists Train up a child then in the fear of the Lord season a new Vessel with wholsom Liquor if they at first are not season'd with good or if bad principles be infus'd into them they will without extraordinary Grace do renew them carry a tang and ill savour to old age Mis-government in this part of the Family vitious humours in Children like a fault in the first concoction breeds an exuberancy of habits seldom to be corrected and purged out Now this part of Family-Government chiefly belongs to Women who when mens occasions call them out are commonly fix'd to the House as Intelligences to their Sphear who although the man as the primum mobile directs the general motion of all yet the particular and regular inclinations in the Children are commonly formed by the Woman and if she be indeed intelligent and Wise none can do it better Children well instituted in Gynaeceo as plants well ordered in the Nursery will thrive and prosper and fill the World with good fruit Now this House the Family and the well-governing of it in all the members which is indeed the building of it this Wise Woman did perform with greatest Providence and Prudence Her Children which were but two * Lady Margaret Countess of Thanet and Isabella Countess of Northhampton that grew up to perfect age she built them up in the nurture and fear of the Lord season'd them with sound Principles of Religion as was sufficiently evident to those who have known them and their constancy to the true Religion in which they were trained up teaching their Children the same Principles which they had sucked with their Mothers milk This excellent Lady had I say but two to build on but God did so bless them even in the sight of their Mother that she saw them arrive at the pitch and praise of Wise Women And by their issue they gave her Pregnant hopes that they would build up or keep up the House of her Ennobled Family like Rachel and Leah which two did build the house of Israel So that her Children and her Childrens Children and their Children did spring up crave and receive her Blessing and shall always call her Blessed who hath intayled such Blessings upon them by her Affection Piety and Providence Prov. 13. 22. Next As to her Servants domestick she well knew that they were pars domûs and how necessary a part of the House the Servants are and therefore to be kept tight sustain'd and carefully to be held up if in decay repaired and therefore this part of her House she was always building or repairing by the hand of her bounty as well as by good and Religious Order in her Family Indeed she looked on some and possibly on some of the meaner sort of her trusty Servants whose Offices might occasion their nearer attendance to be such as Seneca allows them to be humiles amici Good Servants are humble Friends As Friends in no ill nor insignificant complement style themselves humble Servants to their Friend true Friends being willing to stoop to the meanest offices of Servants when their Friends need requires it Therefore as many great and wise Governours of Families have been observed to do in certain seasons to condescend let down themselves and their state by taking up their discreeter Servants into some degree of Familiarity with them so I say this Heroick Lady would besides the necessary discoursing with them about her Affairs divert her self by familiar conversation with her servants in which they were sure besides other gains from her bountiful hands to gain from the words of her mouth something of Remarque whether pleasant or profitable yet very memorable for some or other occasion of life So well did she observe the Wise man's Caution Eccesiasticus 4. 30. Be not a Lion in thy house intimating that some are always in rage and brawl and fright their Family from their presence her Pleasantness and Affability made their very addresses a great part of