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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44075	Two consolatory letters written to the right honorable the Countess of Westmorland The first upon the occasion of the death of Sr Roger Townshend, Baronet: the second upon the death of Mrs Anne Cartwright, Her Honour's children by Sir Roger Townshend, Baronet, her former husband.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing H2324B; ESTC R218018	16,407	30

they were dead And lastly there 's a solemn commemoration of Josiab of his goodness to after-ages 2 Chron. 35 25 26. But if on the other side any Friend should be offended at my remembring him whom they could never forget saying at my pouring out of this Box of precious Ointment of his good Name on him Wherefore is this loss My answer to such is That those devout Women who prepared Spices and Odours to perfume our Saviour's dead body which it was decreed should not see corruption as well as she that poured on him a Box of costly Ointment whilst alive have all their Piety recorded to their praise in the Gospel to this day I hope the good name and blessed memory of Sir Roger Townshend shall never see corruption for the name of the wicked shall rot but the righteous shall be bad in everlasting remembrance yet I deem it a friendly office and such a practice as maybe pardoned for one that had once the honour of such a Pupil at least to perfume your Ladiships Closet with your Son 's sweet Name and gracious odoriferous qualities sent you in this Paper And again I say I have done it for his burial that is I humbly present your Ladiship with this Piece as a Funeral-Sermon for your Son Sir Roger Townshend for so the manner of the English is to bury What pity is it that the light of his good example should be put under a bushel or put out in obscurity by his death and not rather be set up in a Candlestick to give light to all that are in the house Truly my desire is by this means if the will of God be so to provoke to emulation chiefly all young Gentlemen especially those of his Kindred Friends and Acquaintance and to save some yea all of them But I shall leave praising of the dead and betake my self to my prayers for the living And for this cause I bow my knees to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named That he would grant that that unfeigned faith which dwelt first in his Grandmother the Lady Vere and in your Ladiship his dear Mother in you still growing up to a full Assurance and I am perswaded in him also in whom it is already changed into Vision and Fruition may be intailed and doubled upon his rightful Heir and only Brother * Now Lord Townshend Sir Horatio Townshend and all of that Race and Family their Noble Kindred and Allies and that there may not want a man of the House of the Townshends to stand for and before the Lord for ever So prayeth MADAM Your Honour 's very humble Servant in and for the Lord Thomas Hedges TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE COUNTESSE OF WESTMORLAND MADAM FOrasmuch as Womens Names are swallowed up in the Names of their Husbands whilst they live whence amongst the Hebrews Women have a Name signifying Forgetfulness and forasmuch as your deceased Daughter Mrs. Cartwright hath left two Children behind her so young that 't is impossible they should ever remember their dear Mother's Face Give me leave to endeavour to preserve some memories of her and to set them before the eyes at least of those little ones in time to come that they may learn to write after her Copy and be known to be her Children by imitation of her Vertues as well as by participating of her Likeness Your Ladiship may be pleased to remember I endeavoured the like Representation of your dear Son her Brother my Pupil Sir Roger Townshend of blessed memory many years since and now my humble request is That your Ladiship would favour my present Essay for your lately deceased Daughter Mrs. Cartwright my Neighbour that I may not separate the Brother and Sister dead who as they were one in a holy life so now after their death they are not divided She her self was pleased with the reading of the Lives of others though strangers to her and therefore I hope your Ladiship will not be displeased at my writing something of hers your so near a Relation I know she was a Woman subject to like passions with other Women breeding Women and perhaps more than many others yet she knew it and I am informed prayed against it and had got ground of it Yet this I can say and say truly of her That though she lost Eight Children and four of them Sons yet I do not remember that ever I heard her though often grieve and sometimes groan yet never to grumble against the Divine Majesty and yet I must say of her Her love to her Children was wonderfully passing the love of most Women I have heard her say I had rather have Children without Land than Land without Children 'T is true she had a great spirit and a good spirit also for she would be hot and zealous for God his Glory Worship People and Interest in the world as well as in her own Cause and Concernment and that at a time when others who had been scalding hot proved luke-warm if not key-cold in Religion In the ninth Chapter of the Acts of the Holy Apostles we read it an Argument or Evidence of that chosen Vessel of our Lord the Apostle Paul his Conversion Behold he prayeth and let me say Behold a Daughter of Abraham behold a Servant an Handmaid of the Lord for behold she prayed she had learned to cry daily Abba Father and sometimes to offer up strong cries with prayers and tears to him that was able to sanctifie and save her Pray she could and did both in the Church in the Family in her Closet she served God alone and with others she was not above Forms nor under them but could join in prayer either with or without a Book as occasion served She was a Friend to extraordinary times of Prayer as well as ordinary Once before her Lying-in she sent a Letter and a Messenger a Minister to crave the Bishops leave to have a Fast in her House to beg Gods blessing in her extremitie and though she could pray well her self and did use to do so with her Maids and Children on the Lord's Day yet she did not disdain to desire the assistance of other Womens prayers though her Inferiors with her and for her and as the Angel said to Cornelius so may I say of her That her Prayers and her Alms were come up before God As she was one that did ask Mercy of God so she was one that did shew Mercy to the Poor She made constant provision twice a week of Meat Bread and Broath for the Poor of the Town where she lived She would visit the Poor when sick and would afford them her Counsel and Cordials too for their recovery She would desire that the Poor might have the help both of the Minister and Doctor the Soul and Body-Physician both When there was occasion as often there was to send for Doctors from Oxford for her Children she