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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

Two Consolatory LETTERS Written to the RIGHT HONORABLE THE COUNTESS OF Westmorland The first upon 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 LONDON Printed by A. Maxwel for SAMVEL GELLIBRAND at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church yard 1669. TO THE Right Honourable Lady THE LADY MARY COUNTESS OF WESTMORLAND MADAM THE Doctrine of the vanity of the lesser World Man and of the greater World unto Man here presented unto your Ladiships hands hath been from Heaven with sound of Drum and Trumpet preached yea proclaimed in your ears and the ears of this whole Nation now for above seven years together And if Warr that Boanerges or Thundering Preacher at your very door had not spoken loud enough to be heard God hath by a sad hand of his Providence written the same Lesson in very legible Characters to your Ladiship from beyond the Seas Fear not Madam I beseech you to read on the design of this Epistle is not to renew your grief but to promote or perpetuate your joy rather You have had the delight of your eyes the joy of your heart the Heir and Glory of your House your dearly beloved Son Sir Roger Townshend whose memory is and shall be precious about his best Estate and in the very Spring and Flower of his Age cropt off by the hand of Death in a strange Land of whom I had almost said alluding to that of the Apostle Paul Phil. 3.4.5 That if any man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh to say wherefore he should not be made subject unto Vanity but be priviledged from the Arrest of Death He more A Gentleman nobly descended of a large Estate very good Parts much Ingenuity and remarkable Piety And here I shall not take upon me the Office of an Herauld to blazon his Coat and tell who he was among the Great Men of the World but of a Divine rather in some measure to Anatomize his heart and shew what he was amongst good men and towards God Madam The Days the Years of Mourning for your deceased Son are past and God hath since given you many Sons in place of him whom He took And therefore I hope the mentioning of his death shall not revive your former sorrows to endanger your life When he was in France I remember your Ladiship took pleasure in having his Picture by you which was sent you from thence Now that he is gone to Heaven give me leave I pray you to endeavour to describe what manner of Man he was as to his better part his Soul I mean even when he was here upon Earth The Picture of his Piety will I humbly conceive be no small honour to your Ladiship a great Ornament to the House and an excellent Pattern and Copy to the whole Family Wherefore without further Preface As Joseph's Brethren said to their Father Jacob Gen. 37.32 This have we found know now whether it be thy Sons Coat or no. So say I This have I found looking in my Memory Know now whether it be your Son's Picture or no. I begin with his Religion there where usually Religion begins He was a careful observer of the Lord's Day or Christian Sabbath attending diligently upon the publike Ordinances sometimes hearing Three but constantly Two Sermons in a Day and often taking Notes A practise before his time but somewhat rare in Cambridg among Students of his Rank Nor did his Sabbath end with the publike solemn Service He was devout at home as well as at Church He was one of the chief Instruments to set up and countenance that good Custom in the Colledg of meeting together on the Lord's-day-night after Supper to pray sing and repeat the Sermon in their Chambers and this at a time when it was so strange and unwelcome to some profane spirits thereabouts that I remember once there was a Brick-bat thrown in at the Window amongst them where and whilst they were at Prayers together He kept a watch over the door of his lips on that day lest his words should be either of worldly businesses or recreations and for this reason he would then often take his Commons in his Chamber rather than in the Colledg-Hall lest there in a mixt company he should be put upon Discourses or Questions unsuitable for that Day His manner was to approach the Lord's Table not without solemn preparation for which work he did not only allot himself but allow his Servants also convenient time on the Week-days And besides the examination of his own Conscience he submitted himself to be examined by Mr. Calamy before his first admission to the Sacrament with his Congregation and having once a door opened to that Ordinance he would afterwards so cast his Journeys to London if it might be as to be there on the day of their Monthly Sacrament to be a Guest at the Lord's Table at which times when he could not be with your Ladiship he would chuse such Lodgings as where he thought he might enjoy God his Sabbaths and Ordinances best Nor was all his Devotion confined to the Weekly-Sabbath only He was also a Religious observer of Days of publike Fasts or Humiliation and of publike Feasts or Rejoycing which some call Sabbaths extraordinary I remember that when once upon a Day of Thanksgiving he was desired to go to Bowls he did out of Conscience refuse it though it were if I mistake not after the Ordinances were done in publike and though thereunto desired by a Noble Friend and in very civil company Besides these publike solemn times of Worship both ordinary and extraordinary he would sometimes keep a private Fast by himself in his Chamber I remember he kept one once at Cambridg for to humble his soul for the sins of his Thoughts and particularly of his Dreams Hitherto I have shewed you Madam your Son's Picture one way only as it respects God looking upward Will you see it another way as it looks downward towards man Come and see He was a lover of good men of those he chose his Intimates A lover particularly of Good Ministers to those he gave hopes of being a good Friend and Patron now in a time when they have many great Enemies and but few real and powerful Friends How willing was he to have trod in those good steps of his deceased Father To have given the Impropriate Tythes of Rudham to make a considerable maintenance for a good Minister He was charitable not to say bountiful to them that stood in need I remember once at Raynham he gave ten shillings to a poor old man of the Town that came to see him And when he left the University he gave a Pension or Allowance of ten or twelve pounds per annum to a poor Scholar who had waited on him there of which charitable act as well as of his Lands his loving Brother

would make it her business to plead the Cause of the Poor that were sick in the Town and procured sometimes as good Advice for them for nothing as she had her self for Fees Nor yet did the Doctors lose all their Alms this way for she had such an excellent Receit-Book or Store-house of Remedies that she could and did thence sometimes impart to the Physicians as good Counsel as they gave their Patients either with or without a Fee And here give me leave to tell your Ladiship what a Student your Daughter was in the best of Receit-Books the Book of Books the Holy Bible Out of this Dispensatory as the Learned Scribe out of his Treasure she could bring things new and old Salves for the worst that is Soul-Diseases She was a daily reader and due reverencer of the Sacred Scripture She was so great a Proficient in it that she could discourse of the History argue about the Points of Doctrine contained and matter of Duties required in it with Ministers and Doctors She was a Champion for the Truth and was able to chuse such smooth Stones out of this pure Cristal Brook the Holy Scripture and to sling them so as to strike the stoutest Goliah of the Romish Philistines in the fore-head When once there was a discourse with a Papist concerning the lawfulness of Priests Marriage how quickly and appositely did she alledg that of the Apostle Paul to Timothy A Bishop must be the Husband of one Wife 2 Tim. 3.2 Had she lived in former Ages she might better for her knowledg have been admitted into the Council than those Women we read of in our Church-Histories and particularly in Sir Henry Spelman his Conc. Tom. 1. p. 19. She was zealous for the Honour and Authority of the Holy Scripture she liked not that Wits should shew their folly as many too too often do in carping at and criticizing against the Contents of it When any Question in Religion was moved or started she would appeal from Man's Testimony to God's and would have it tried and judged by that and as of old they used to ask Counsel at Abel and so end the Matter or Controversie so was she for having all disputes in Religion to be decided by the Scripture to ask Counsel at that and so to end the Matter or Controversie She had her Senses exercised to discern betwixt Truth and Falshood 'twixt good and bad Doctrine Her Ear could tast words whether sound or unsound as her Pallat meats whether savoury or unsavoury and having tasted the goodness of true Religion she could be zealous for it I remember once I being in dispute with a Romanist and he charging me to be hot she standing by replied suddenly Why should not he be as zealous for his Religion as you are for yours If you ask me how she came to be mighty in the Scriptures with Apollos and to know the way of God so perfectly with Aquilla and Priscilla I answer Her delight was in the Law of God and in that did she read day and night She spent more time daily in adorning her Soul than her Body and made more use of the Scriptures than of any other Mirrour whatsoever She did write many Volumes of Sermons which she heard preached and she read many Printed ones and other Treatises of Divinity which she bought Her daily converse was with good Christians and good Books the Lord's Day she made a market-Market-day for her soul a Feast a good day for her soul She made Conscience of spending the Lord's Day and would be troubled when hindred from a spiritual improvement of it and complain at night she had lost a day She scrupled unnecessary sending her Servants abroad on that day or uncharitable keeping them at home and debarring them the liberty of hearing God's Word She offered the sacrifice of Prayer for her Children like Job Resolved that no ungodly swearing or drunken persons should tarry in her house like David And again with Joshua That she and her House would serve the Lord. She was for the Marrow Quintessence the Life and Soul of Religion not only zealous for or against Ceremonies but for the substance of God's Worship and Service She had I think a good if not the best temper viz. an indifferent temper as to things indifferent in Religion She refused not to hear Divine Service read though in a Surplice nor a Bishop preach though in a Rochet and yet was not for persecuting those who really scrupled either having a tender Conscience her self though not a scrupulous one She was very tender of pressing upon others Consciences She was not like those narrow Souls who like or love none but of their own Way or Party Humour or Fancy but had a general kindness for good Christians of all Perswassons She loved indeed sound solid and affectionate Preaching she liked not a Minister should freeze in his Study all the Week and sweat in the Pulpit on the Lord's Day nor that he should sweat in his Study and freeze in the Pulpit nor without good reason for that which comes from the heart is most likely to go to the heart and he that is most perswaded of and affected with what he speaks himself is most likely to perswade and affect others And as she had chosen her daily-walk in the King of Heaven's High-way her self so did she desire not to go alone but in company and in the company of her nearest Relations Children and Servants She taught her Daughter that was capable of learning the fear of the Lord to read the Scriptures to learn her Catechism to pray betimes and she made it her great request upon her Death-bed That her Children might be brought up religiously and disposed of when fit for marriage rather into good than great Families Religion was alive in her and she was not willing it should dye with her but be propagated and flourish in the Family when she was dead She professed a great love to Truth and 't is the Character which the God of Truth gives to his People They will not lye though they be belyed by the Father of Lyes and falsly reported of to the contrary The Law of Chastity was in her Looks and in her Lips I never heard an obscene impure word come out of her Lips She could blush for other Women that could not for themselves Her care was for her self and her counsel to others To avoid not only shame but blame and not only all faults but suspition and not only to do no evil but not to be thought to do any She used neither Art nor Sin to make her appear beautiful nor any rich and costly attire to make her brave Her Apparel and Dress was rather below than above her Estate and Quality She was a lover of her Friends and would deny her self to serve and help them She would own a Friend in Adversity She was not as many great ones are so high as to despise a Relation in a low