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A sermon preached at Bowden in Cheshire, April 6th, 1691 at the funeral of the right honourable Mary, Countess of Warrington by Richard Wroe.
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Wroe, Richard, 1641-1717.
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how passionately did She receive the Summons How sollicitously did she speed to Her Succour maugre the intemperance of the season and the darkness of the Night even to the hazard of Her Health which she could sooner venture than Conceal her filial Duty and Tenderness To her Lord 's Collateral Relations she was not more a Sister than a Mother nor less Lamented by them who best knew how to Value Her To her Lord himself she was every thing that could Endear her to him Faithful and Obedient Obliging Observant not Curious to Gratify Her own Humour but to comply with his studying wholly what might make for his interest advantage or conveniency In all his Troubles and Dangers she was still an equal sharer and help'd to make them seem less to him by bearing so great a part of the burden her self Yet in the midst of her Compassionate Affection I may add too Affliction for him she retain'd that prudence and steadiness of mind which afforded comfort to him and support to them both Her Tryals in that kind were very severe yet born with a masculine Vigour and singular Discretion and when she must either be divorced from the Society of her dear Lord or be made close Prisoner with him she begg'd for a Voluntary Confinement to the loss of her Liberty and apparent hazard of her Health And after that storm was happily blown over and new dangers threatned him abroad and her self with all that was near and dear to her at home with what Courage and Patience she weathered those gathered clouds I need not here Relate where 't is so well known But what will not Conjugal Love and Duty go through 't was that gave life and support to Her Spirit 't was that lessened the misfortunes she shar'd in and made them more easy at once to her self and her Honourable Consort who made the happiness Mutual in Reciprocal Kindness and the returns of Endear'd love and Tenderness But neither these Accidental Cares nor the more Constant Concerns of Her Family made her forget or neglect her more important duty to God 't was his Favour she depended on for a Blessing and rightly judg'd Religion the means to obtain both and made the practice of the duties of it the great evidence of Her Title to it being frequent in her private devotions and constant in publick in both serious and regular without design or Affectation Let this place speak her Constant Attendance on the publick Ordinances and her timely approach to Gods house and the Decency of her Worship An Example that wants imitation here and deserves to be Copied from so fair an Original What she learnt in Gods house she carryed home to her own and Digested in her private Retirements being through Her own industrious Piety Excellently furnished with the Choicest Subjects for Holy Thoughts and Refined Meditations For she had the Psalms by heart than which there cannot be higher Strains of Devotion nor more Heavenly Raptures for the Soul to take its Flight in Besides these she had some select portions and places of Scripture which she made her Familiars and endear'd to her thoughts by dayly Meditation having first writ them with her own Hands in a Book made and kept for that purpose repeating them over every night as she did also in her last sickness and amongst them this of my Text which she had set a mark upon in the Margin with these words my Funeral Text and I question not had a more lively impression on her mind of the comfortable import of it Her Charity must not be forgot the surest Evidence of sincere Devotion and best Expression of Religion which was not published with the Sound of the Trumpet done with Noise and Ostentation but rather by her Saviour's Direction so as her Left Hand scarce knew what her Right Hand did giving without asking and sending where it was not look'd for finding out Objects of Charity where Modesty conceal'd them and making the Wants of others not their Importunity the Ground of her Liberality feeding the Hungry clothing the Naked supplying the Necessities of the Indigent administring not only Food but Physick and all by so many various ways in such seasonable Methods as I am no more able to reckon up than imitate Yet her Alms were but a Moiety of her Charity which was much more large and extensive as it cannot fail to be where it flows from a true Charitable Disposition and diffus'd it self through all the effects of Kindness and good Nature which She had an Opportunity to express or a fit Object to confer on Her Courteous Mein and Winning Affability has an Attestation so general as needs nothing more than the bare Mention of it but must not here be omitted lest I seem to forget my self and wrong my Brethren of the Clergy in not acknowledging the great Civility and Respect She ever pay'd to our Function which will remain amongst us a lasting Monument of Her Honour I must hasten to the last Stage of Her Life and first Date of our Grief and Loss that Fatal Period to which the Strength of Nature and Flower of Age and all the Arts of Physick were forc'd to yield and which we had not met this day to Lament if either the Passionate Desires of a Sorrowful Husband or the innocent Sighs of Dear Children or the Mournful Requests of Affectionate Relations or the Tears of Her Family or the Cryes of the Neighbourhood or the Pathetick Prayers and Wishes of all good People could have prevail'd for a Respite But She more chearfully read the Sentence of Death in her self and prepar'd to Meet the King of Terrours without Fear and Amazement or the Convulsions of Impatience praying oft and ardently her self and calling on all about her to joyn with Her lifting up Eyes stedfast in Faith and joyful through Hope till She breath'd out a Soul already on Wing towards the Regions of Bliss the Centre of all Her Hopes the Sum of all Her Desires and Prayers I shall Conclude the Character in the Queen of Sheba's Words when she found the Glory of Solomon's Court so far exceed the Fame that went of it That half hath not been spoken Had She liv'd to perfect what She had so well begun She had left the World a lively Draught of real Worth and Goodness and built Her own Monument in a Pattern worthy of Imitation And we must reckon it our own Loss not Hers that She was so soon call'd off the Stage and must draw the Curtain o're that part of the Scene which we can now only wish She had stayd to finish May the Copy She left be the Transcript of Her Posterity May her Piety and Vertuous Endowments be hereditary in that Right Honourable Family and be derived to the Succession of many Generations May Providence repair the Breach that is there made and restore the Voice of Joy and Gladness to the House of Mourning May his all-wise Dispensations leave on us all the Impressions of Wisdom and thoughtful Consideration that the Living may lay it to Heart that we who survive may with Patience and Well-doing wait for our approaching Change and improve this sad Remembrancer of our Frailty to the Instructions of Duty and seasonable Meditation Amen FINIS FORMS of Private Devotion for every Day in the Week in a Method agreeable to the Liturgy with Occasional Prayers and an Office for the Holy Communion and for the Time of Sickness Humbly recommended to all the Pious and Devout Members of the Church of England A Sermon Preached before the Queen at White-Hall February the Fifteenth 1690 1. By Henry Dove D. D. Chaplain to Their Majesties Roman Forgeries in the Councils during the first Four Centuries together with an Appendix concerning the Forgeries and Errors in the Annals of Baronius By Thomas Comber D. D. Precentor of York A Scholastical History of the Primitive and general Use of Liturgies in the Christian Church together with an Answer to Mr. David Clarkson's late Discourse concerning Liturgies in Two Parts in Octavo By the same Hand Seasonable Reflections on a late Pamphlet Entituled A History of Passive Obedience since the Reformation wherein the true Nation of Passive Obedience is settled and secured from the Malicious Interpretations of ill designing Men. The Golden Rule or the Royal Law of Equity explained By J. Goodman D. D. The Frauds of the Romish Priests and Monks set forth in Eight LETTERS lately written by a Gentleman in his Journey into Italy A late Letter concerning the Proceedings in Scotland and sufferings of the Episcopal Clergy there in Quarto price 6 d. Political Arithmetick or a Discourse concerning the Extent and Value of Lands People Buildings Husbandry Manufacture Commerce Fishery Artizans Seamen Soldiers Publick Revenues Interest Taxes Superlucration Registries Banks Valuation of Men Increasing of Seamen of Militia's Harbors Situation Shipping Power at Sea c. As the same relates to every Country in general but more particularly to the Territories of His Majesty of Great Britain and his Neighbors of Holland Zealand and France by Sir William Petty late Fellow of the Royal Society Their present Majesties Government proved to be throughly settled and that we may submit to it without asserting the Principles of Mr. Hobbs shewing also That Allegiance was not due to the Usurpers after the late Civil War occasion'd by some late Pamphlets against the Reverend Dr. Sherlock FINIS