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A17079	The vertuous daughter A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Warwicke, at the funerall of the most vertuous and truely religious young gentlewoman, Mistresse Cicely Puckering, daughter and co-heire to the right worshipfull, Sir Thomas Puckering, knight and baronet, the fourteenth day of Aprill, 1636. By Iohn Bryan, parson of Barford.	Bryan, John, d. 1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 3955; ESTC S114258	15,760	30

THE VERTVOVS DAVGHTER A Sermon Preached at Saint Maries in Warwicke at the Funerall of the most vertuous and truely religious young Gentlewoman Mistresse Cicely Puckering Daughter and Co-heire to the right Worshipfull Sir Thomas Puckering Knight and Baronet the fourteenth day of Aprill 1636. BY IOHN BRYAN Parson of Barford PSAL. 8.2 Out of the mouthes of Babes and Sucklings hast thou ordained strength LONDON Printed by Thomas Harper for Lawrence Chapman and are to be sold at his shop in Holborne at Chancery lane end 1636. To the right Worshipfull Sir THOMAS PVCKERING Knight and Baronet and to his vertuous and religious Lady increase of all saving graces here and everlasting peace and rest in heaven THis Sermon preached at the funerall of your dearest childe who was a gratious Saint on earth and is now a glorious one in heaven I doe humbly dedicate to you both it being yours by all manner of right and the best Present J am able to present your Worships with My poore paines taken herein J heartily acknowledge to deserve neither yours nor the acceptation of any that are judicious but the speeches which proceeded from the heavenly mouth of your blessed Daughter which are here related deserve in the judgement of wise and good men to be written in letters of Gold and to be known and read of all men being full of life and power to quicken the dullest soule to a love and liking of the wayes of godlinesse The desire to heare this Sermon preached was great and generall as appeared by the great confluence of people out of Towne and Country neither is it doubted but that some good was then wrought upon many souls And the desire to have it published is greater and more generall there being hope conceived that much glory may be brought to God and much edification to men by considering the worke of God upon so tender yeares Your Worships have much honoured God and your selves by bearing so great a triall with such admirable patience and comfort What remaineth but that you alwayes set before your eyes this matchlesse patterne which proceeded from your owne bowels for your imitation that as you were instruments to give her a temporall life so she though dead yet speaking may be an happy instrument though not to give yet to increase and maintaine the life of grace and consolation in your soules You have begunne to cleave to Christ with firme decree and ●ull purpose of heart and the world observeth that you are already rich gainers by this great losse Goe on I beseech you and grow daily in the exemplary practise of a really religious life being fully assured that he whose glory you seeke and whose yoke you beare will in due time make up this breach and recompence this losse if not in the same kinde which I pray and hope yet in some other which shall be most for his glory and your comfort in the end Neither is there cause that you should overmuch lament the losse of this one childe seeing God hath blessed you with many children though but one living upon whom God Almighty double his blessings For to omit many whose parents in effect you are may I not call those sixe poore children in Warwicke for whom you have provided honest and profitable trades and callings every seven yeares successively to the worlds end of whose death there is no feare while the common wealth and lawes continue in life your children But fearing lest J should exceed the bounds of an Epistle desiring your favourable acceptance of this poore expression of my thankefull minde for your many favours J humbly take my leave and rest Your Worshi●s much obliged and in the Lord ever to be commanded Iohn Bryan The Vertuous DAVGHTER PRO. 31.29 Many Daughters have done vertuously but thou excellest them all THis Chapter spends it selfe for the most part in the description commendation of a vertuous woman The exordium or beginning of the encomium is in the tenth verse Who can finde a vertuous woman for her price is farre above rubies The conclusion of it is in the four last verses whereof my Text is one Wherein the holy Ghost giveth her as we see a most ample testimony and commendation by way of comparison for hee compareth her not with a vitious one whom it is no great grace to surpasse but with the vertuous nor with one onely but with many all which he witnesseth she doth not onely equallize but farre excell Many daughters have done vertuously but thou excellest them all The maine lesson which the Spirit of God intendeth to teach us in this context and especially in these words is this That such as doe vertuously may and should bee praised yea the more vertuously any doe the more praise and commendation is due to them This good woman described in this chapter is as you see not onely positively but superl●tively praised For the explication of this point Explication nothing needs opening save what is meant by doing vertuously What it is to doe vertuously Morall Philosophers define vertue thus It is say they an habit of the minde acquired and confirmed by custome use and practise enabling a man to rule his appetite and to discharge the duties of his calling in a laudable manner In fewer words thus It is an elective habit inclining the will to well-doing Now to wel-doing they teach (a) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aristot eth lib. 2. cap. 4. foure things to be requisite 1 That t●e thing or subject matter of the action be in it selfe lawfull and good even such as is approved and warranted by the judgement of wise men for this they make the rule of vertue (b) 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 lib. 2. cap. 6. 2 That the agent both know and purpose the doing of it for he that doth a good action ignorantly or rashly cannot be said to doe well seeing science and counsell are the foundation of every good worke for as to him that knoweth to doe good and doth it not to him it is sinne so to him that doth good and knoweth it not or purposeth it not it is sinne also 3 That his end be right for hee that doth a good worke for some by-respect and not out of love to goodnesse and for it owne sake he may doe something which may be materially good but it is at the best far from being well done 4 That he continue and hold out unto the end in his purpose and endeavour of doing well for perseverance is the complement and crowne of vertue Divinity defines it thus It is a gift of Gods Spirit and a part of regeneration whereby a man is made apt and able to deny all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live soberly righteously and godly in this present world And to doe thus is to doe vertuously Confirmation 1 For confirmation of this truth first I will give you some examples of vertuous women both out of the old and new