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A66656	Eurēka, Eurēka the virtuous woman found, her loss bewailed, and character examined in a sermon preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678, at the funeral of ... Mary, countess dowager of Warwick, the most illustrious pattern of a sincere piety, and solid goodness his age hath produced : with so large additions as may be stiled the life of that noble lady : to which are annexed some of her ladyships pious and useful meditations / by Anthony Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Warwick, Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. Occasional meditations upon sundry subjects.	1678 (1678)	Wing W301; ESTC R233189	74,039	235

fragments and broken meat but with liberal provision purposely made for them She was a great pitier yea a great lover of the poor and she built a convenient house on purpose for them at her London-Seat as they had one at Leez to shelter them from rain and heat while they received their dole and when she was at London with her Family had in her absence whilst no house was kept at Leez a kind of house kept for their sakes alone That is twice a week good Beef and Bread provided for the poor of four adjacent Parishes and hath taken order in her Will to have the same continued three months after her decease and by the same Will hath given an hundred pounds to be distributed to the Poor of Braintree Felsted Little-Leez and Much-Waltham at or shortly after her Funeral And though it cannot reasonably be expected from one who had no Lands of Inheritance to leave charitable foundations Yet I may without Hyperbole say that every year she lived after she came to be Mistress of the Estate she gave as much in charity as would have purchased Lands sufficient to have endowed an Alms-house or Free-school And that pious and liberal foundation of Rochford Alms-house which though founded legally by a Patent granted under the Broad Seal for its confirmation by the Ancestors of that Family of which she bore the Title was by the death of the Founder not endowed yet as all her predecessors had done She always paid the Alms-people their full designed Allowance and ordered by her last Will it should be so done for a year after her decease And I must here take leave to add to their great honour and the satisfaction of all that relate to that Family that those Right Honourable and worthy persons to whom the estate descends have agreed to continue the same plentiful allowance And if I were worthy to advise them I would earnestly perswade them to make Legal Settlement and endow it with Lands to the value of what they resolve to allow before they make the division of the Estate But methinks I hear it asked what had she no Spots no Scars no real nor imputed Blemishes how could she live in such an Age and not be corrupted or at least traduced neither scorched by the fire of infection nor blackned by the smoak of revengeful detraction for obraiding the guilty by her innocency This overdoing is undoing if you would make us believe she had no faults we shall sooner believe you have no truth And that all you have said hath more of Romance and what you fancy than Narrative of what she was or did I confess 't is next to a miracle to consider both how divine Grace enlarged her heart and established her goings and restrained the tongues of others from reproaching or shewing dislike of that in her for which they deride and hate not to say persecute others But I must implore that candour while I embalm her memory with the sweet Oyntment of her own good name you granted to her vertues which acquired it and made it so fragrant I therefore solemnly protest I have spoke the truth though the truth in love as I am allowed and requir'd Eph. 4.15 and have not knowingly disguised or falsified nor dipt my pen in flattering colours But since you are so inquisitive and seem to deny me the just and civil freedom to draw a veil of silence over her imperfections and your curiosity will be peeping under that sacred Pall which should secure and shroud the worst of men from being pryed into and the Vault and Grave that place of darkness and forgetfulness which should bury all defects and render them invisible must be ransack'd Draw back the Curtains let in the light survey its secretest recesses nor She nor I in her behalf fear the most piercing Eagle-eye or Scent Nor that I deny her to have been a Sinner while I adore that Grace that made her a Saint or that she was a Woman while I proclaim her a Terrestrial Angel But these three things I say and will adhere to First That she was not notoriously defective in any Grace or Vertue but as eminent in all as most have been for any single one She was not only aliquid in omnibus but omnis in singulis she did abound in every grace Which St. Gregory Naz. admires in Gorgonia and St. Jerom in Nepotian Ita in singulis virtutibus eminebat quasi caeteras non haberet Secondly She was never stained with any scandalous deformity another rare mercy For though she did humanum pati slip now and then or stumble if you will she fell not much less lay or wallowed to defile her Garments which I testifie not only from my own observation but her own Pen. After God had thus savingly I hope wrought upon me I went on constantly comfortably in my Christian course though I had many doubts and fears to contend with And did truly obey that Precept of working out my Salvation with fear and trembling yet God was pleased to carry me still onward And though I too often broke my good resolutions I never renounced them and though I too often tript in my Journey to Heaven yet I never forsook my purpose of going thither Thirdly Her very defects and failings were such as others might be proud of her Weeds would have been Flowers and her Thistles appeared Roses in another Garden For I never heard her blamed for more than two faults by the most curious observers and inspectors of her disposition or behaviour 1. Excess of Charity 2. Defect of Anger or what was reduceable to those two two goodly faults But even these admit Apology more easily than they need it 1. What was reputed the culpable excess of her Charity was her credulous easiness to believe most people good or at least better than they were I confess she did bend a little to this right hand error but if it were a bad effect it proceeded from a good cause For as 't is observed that as they who are conscious to themselves of some great evils scarce can esteem any less nocent than themselves so they that have clear and innocent hearts are ready to judge the like of others Charity thinketh no evil and she used this good opinion of others as an instrument to make them what she was so willing to signifie she thought them And though she would never despair of any man while she found them under the Awe of Gods Authority and Word for even those may receive some nourishment who eat against Stomach and the Seive under the Pump may be cleansed though it hold no water yet if she observed a person to scorn or deride the Scriptures despise Gods Ordinances and turn all that was sacred into ridicule She used as her Phrase was to set her mark upon that man And I must further add She was neither so often nor so much mistaken in her judgment of persons as some supposed she was

ΕΥΡΗΚΑ ΕΥΡΗΚΑ THE Virtuous Woman found Her LOSS BEWAILED AND CHARACTER EXEMPLIFIED IN A SERMON Preached at Felsted in Essex April 30 1678. At the Funeral of that most Excellent Lady the Right Honourable and Eminently Religions and Charitable Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick the most Illustrious Pattern of Sincere Piety and Solid Goodness this Age hath produced With so Large Additions as may be stiled THE LIFE OF THAT NOBLE LADY To which are Annexed some of her Ladyships Pious and Useful Meditations By Anthony Walker D. D. and Rector of Fyfield 〈◊〉 the same Country LONDON Printed for Nathanael Ranew at the King's Arms in S. Paul's Church-Yard 1678. TO THE Right Honourable KATHARINE VICOUNTESS RANALAUGH AND THE HONOURABLE ROBERT BOYLE Esq Executors of the Last Will of the Right Honourable Mary Countess Dowager of Warwick Right Honourable Madam and Truly Honourable Sir MY Obedience to the repeated Commands I have received for so I shall always esteem your Requests from both your Honours to publish the Sermon I was by the same Authority engaged to Preach at the Funeral of that excellent Lady the Genuine Sister of your vertue as well as the Germane Sister of your blood had not been guilty of these few weeks delays had not the indisposition which began to seize me at so near and perplexing a stroke and under which I laboured all the time of my preparations and in the hour of its delivery continued upon me many days After an effect so natural to so pressing a cause that I know not whether the health of my body could have consisted with the soundness of my mind under such an inexpressible loss to the Church of God and my poor self in particular But what I was constrained to defer a while Ut bonum quo diu fruiti sumus etiam caeteris noscendum imitandumque plenius describerem S. Hier. Ep. 10 Epitaphium mercellae viduae I now multo cum faenore present to you both with all humble observance and under your favourable protection to the eye of the world The Sermon is such almost verbatim as my hasty and sickly preparations would then allow Her Ladyships Character I confess is much enlarged that I might somewhat more fully than those streights of time would suffer me propound to the knowledge and imitation of others Grandes materiasingenia parva non sustinent Et in ips● conatu ultra vires ausa succumbunt quantoque magis fuerit quod dicendum est tanto magis obruitur qui magnitudinem rerum verbis non potest explicare that good we had the happiness to enjoy so long and yet too short a time I am conscious to my self of the great disproportion betwixt my performance and her merit for which my Apology is that of St. Jerome weak parts cannot sustain great matters c. Yea this is a Fate must have inevitably attended whoever had been her Orator in some degree When I may say as truly of her as Greg. Naz. of his Gorgonia her Prudence and Piety no man living was able to set forth with proportionable language And again It is exceeding difficult to reach the excellencies of her Virtues either by deed or word by imitation or encomium And though very many might have praised her more floridly none could have represented her more truly no man living having known her so long and so intimately as my self And my weakness and plainness may attain this double advantage First Render the Narration more credible Quaedam abstraxero ne incredibilia videantur c. Hier. ad Demet. which if it had been dressed up with all the ornaments of which 't was capable would have looked in this Age more like a Romance than an History Secondly It will better suit with the Original it copies for as is said of Suetonius he wrote the lives of the Roman Caesars with the same liberty they led them So I have writ this excellent Ladies life with the Age ad ipsius laudes accedamus neglecta sermonis elegantia et concinnitatate nam ne haec quidem quam laudandam suscepimus lascivo unquam ornatu delectata est Naz. same undisguised simplicity with which she lived it And though never any man had a more concescending constant sincere Friend than she vouchsafed to be to me yet is not the testimony less true because of a Friend but the more scrupulously exact for fear of desecrating so sacred a name and offending the Genius of her who above all things hated falshood I am not the first nor shall be the last whom those whose charity ●nd good opinion is not only so wise as to begin at home but also so kind as to dwell and end there too will despise or pity and bless themselves in the conceit of what mighty matters they could have done if this Province had fallen to their share It may be little thinking how such sorrows as mine justly are would have blunted the edge of their keener Eloquence and how unmeet a Theme so calamitous a loss is on which to shew our wit Non oportet ex calamitate ipsa ostendendi ingenii ansam arripere But let such for me enjoy their humours I 'll say no more lest I awake them and so deprive them of their pleasant dream For my self I have endeavoured to approve my Conscience to God Hic murus aheneus esto And I hope I may appeal to your Honourable Attestation whose Testimony will be without and beyond exception in most things I have written of Your My Marcellant tuam into meam et ut verius loquar nostram S. Hier. ep 16. Our incomparable Friend And I doubt not but all who knew her Ladyship thorowly will be able to say as the poor people are reported to have said after the Funeral Sermon of another The Lady Veer eminent Ornament of this Country They could have said a great deal more of Her than the Minister did At the hearing of which our good Lady was much pleased and said She should value such a Testimony above all others The Poor like the Widows which stood about the dead body of Dorcas shewing the Coats and Garments she made for them Acts. 9.39 whilst she was with them being the most unexceptionable witnesses I confess it seems both decent and necessary to suggest some Arguments of Comfort to them whom I know to be opprest with so bitter and distressing a loss And the undertaking would not in one respect at least be altogether unsuitable to my self Because Great is that Cordial which is administred by those who are partakers of the same sorrows Magnum Pharmacum illud est quod abillis qui eodem dolore affecti sunt porrigitur et qui in eadem calamitate versantur eorum in consolandis calamitosis major est Authoritas And their Authority is greatest in comforting the calamitous who bear a deep share in the same calamity as one of the Ancients hath well said Give me leave therefore much honoured Madam Sir besides

to be so throughly and if you do not find it much better than I have told you never take my word or trust me more Thus and much more powerfully would her zeal for their good cause her to argue with her Friends that she might by holy violence attract them and allure them to be good and happy 5. She was of an extensive charity and would make people good by believing them to be so and by this engagement make them ashamed to deceive her hopes and disappoint her expectation 6. She had a tender conscientious care to provide good Ministers and to encourage them would augment their maintenance where 't was small Leez Braintree and Foulness c. may be her witnesses in this and indeed she was the heartiest and truest Friend I ever knew to such and do despair ever to know her like in this respect 7. She had a great care of the Souls of her Servants and if she had any ambition in her 't was in this to be the Mistress of a religious Family This appeared amongst others in these particulars 1. In exacting their attendance on God's publick Worship and reverent behaviour there Her Eye surveyed her Chappel and none could be absent but she would miss them 2. In personal instruction and familiar perswading of them I appeal to the consciences of all that serv'd her what one of them hath she not on some occasion dealt with to do them good 3. In preparing them for and perswading them to the frequent partieipation of the Lord 's most holy Supper 4. In scattering good Books in all the common Rooms and places of attendance that those that waited might not lose their time but well employ it and have a bait laid of some practical useful Book and fitted to their capacity which might catch and take them 5. In making it the Foot-step to preferment for she used to make the hundredth and first Psalm the Rule of her Oeconomicks and though she treated all her servants as Friends yet they were her Favourites which most signally feared God And she was not a first Table Christian only we need not draw her Picture with a side-face to hide the disfigurement of either side both her hands wrought in the work of God she did not claudicare but walk'd in his ways with both her Feet She had learn'd S. John's Lesson That he who loves God must love his Brother also 1. She was exactly righteous 2. She was prodigiously charitable 1. She was exactly just in word and deed She never forfeited her Title to the privilege of Peerage to be believed upon the honour of her word which was as sacred as any oath and as good security as many bonds No inconvenience to her self would make her recoil or flinch from the obligations she had brought her self under by her own mouth yea she had such an abhorrence of a dishonourable recess from express or but intimated promises that it would render her esteem of such persons exceeding cheap and mean who by little arts and shifts would loose and free themselves from their engagements and disappoint the expectations they had raised in others to save their charges accounting their money spared a very poor and base redemption of their reputation She abhorred a lye and us'd modestly to give this testimony of her self You know I dare not I will not lie And her Lord knew this so well that though he were positive enough yet would never persist if there happened any contest against whatever she affirmed peremptorily And a lye was the foulest blemish any could stain themselves with in conversing with her and the most unpardonable fault a servant could contract to whom she us'd to say Tell me the truth and I can forgive you any thing I shall take liberty on this occasion to add a passage which may be useful on a double account 1. To let her Honourable Friends know she forgot them not though her purposes were prevented 2. How she feared the shaddow of a lye About a Month before she died she was though then in as perfect health as I have known her determined to alter her will And whereas she had before given many honourable Legacies in money to persons of great Quality she said she would alter them all for this reason because they were rich and money they needed not but she would give it in something they might keep as kind memorials of her and when she had set down all their names in a Paper she also bethought her self what would be most acceptable to every of them For said she that renders a gift most agreeable when it suits the fancy of the party to whom it is designed And then surveying her own store she fixed on what to give to most of them but not finding her self actually provided of what she might bequeath to all she resolved to leave all to a Codicil to be annexed to her Will and expresly said I am now God willing going to London when I have finished my Will and then I will by discourse find out undiscerned what will be most pleasing to every one of them and will provide accordingly Yet when the draught of her Will was made she would put into the Will its self for the Right Honourable the Countess of Scarsdale her beloved Sister-in-law who was one of that number to which in her former Will she had given a Legacy in money a set of silver Sconces which adorned her own Chamber And when I asked her Ladyship why she would not leave her to the Codicil among the rest she was pleased to give this reason Because said she she is the only person living to whom I ever intimated being in my will and I would not die and have it found otherwise and so be under the suspicion of having told a lie or dying with a lye in my mouth She had learn'd S. Paul's Lesson to perfection To speak evil of no man and where she could not speak well the worst injury she would do was to be silent and say nothing unless it were to some single Friend of whose Taciturnity she was secure by experience Nor would she invidiously diminish the just praises of any who deserved them Nay would rather study to extenuate their other failings by presenting the light side to hide the dark one And would commend them for one good quality or action to cover many bad ones and would say yet I must do them this right they are so or so for all this And she was no less accurately just in deed than word she had learn'd to do as well as to say she not only gave goodly words but good performances And because the due discharge of the duties of our Relations is one of the most signal evidences of Righteousness and the greatest ornament of our Profession of Religion I shall touch briefly how she used to acquit her self in that respect as a Wife to her Husband living as an Executrix to his Will and a