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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48315	A monitor of mortality, the second sermon Occasioned by the death of Mrs. Harpur, a grave and godly matron (wife to Mr. Henry Harpur of the city of Chester) and of the death of their religious daughter Phœbe Harpur, a child of about 12. yeares of age. By Iohn Ley minister of Great Budworth in Cheshiere.; Monitor of mortalitie.	Ley, John, 1583-1662.	1643 (1643)	Wing L1884A; ESTC R216672	26,028	38

A MONITOR OF MORTALITY THE SECOND SERMON OCCASIONED By the Death of Mrs Harpur a grave and godly Matron wife to Mr. Henry Harpur of the City of Chester and of the death of their Religious Daughter Phoebe Harpur a child of about 12. yeares of age By Iohn Ley Minister of Great-Budworth in Cheshiere GEN. 30.1 Give me children or else I die Parcamus lachrymis nihil proficientibus faciliùs enim illi nos dolor iste adijcret quam illum nobis reducet Senec. Consolat ad Polyb. c. 23. LONDON Printed for Christopher Meredith at the Crane in Pauls-Church-yard M.DC.XLIII To my much HONOVRED AND WORthy Friends Thomas Standley Esquire and to Mrs Elizabeth Standley his most loving and beloved wife I.L. wisheth increase of grace here and the accomplishment of grace and glory hereafter THere is none example of any one dead but may be an admonitor of the mutability of mans estate to any one alive Since death is not the limited lot of particular persons but the common doome of all living creatures of mankind especially as having alwayes a desert of the sentence of death by the guilt of sinne in his soule and a condition of body ever capable of the execution of that sentence But for these two memorandums of Mortality now presented by the Presse to publike use the one of a godly Matron the other of a gracious maid her daughter whom I bring in both together because there was a time when the mother and the child by their bodily union were reckoned but for one person and when their bodies were divided their souls were as was said of the soule of Jacob and Benjamin as it were bound up in one bundle Ge. 44.30 31. they areso much more meet to be commended to your memory as they were the better known unto you and the more frequent and familiar reciprocations of respect have passed betwixt you they have bin usually such and so many that in mine observation for divers years together seldome hath your house bin without some guest of theirs or theirs without some of your Family and this amicable entercourse hath been mutually exercised with such cheerfulnesse of affection as came neare in conformity to the communion of the Primitive Christians so farre as the distance of your ordinary dwellings would permit and they as St. Luke sheweth in his Story of the Acts had all things common Act. 2.44 and this Community like that professed by Ruth to Naomi Ruth 1.16 hath held on from life to death from death to buriall For the daughter whose death through the dearnesse of motherly love was an occasion of her Mothers translation from a mortall to an immortall life spent her last dayes as one of your houshold dyed under your roofe and lyeth buried in the Church of your both Parish and Patronage And that neither of them might be buried in oblivion I have now published that of both to common view to which I have bin divers times sollicited by such as were neare enough to them to discerne a meere colour of sanctitie from the solid truth of it and who have too much integrity in them by straining their owne consciences to scrue up the credit of others to an over high commendation the just elevation whereof in reference to those two whom death parted for a while but now hath joyned in their better part for ever is so well knowne to you both that if what I have written of them were to come to a legall proofe I might for very much of it produce you two as witnesses above exception of their well deserving and of my true speaking of them which is one reason of my Dedication of their Funerall Remembrance to your names Another is the request of him who had a peculiar right in the Mother as an husband a primary right in the daughter as a Father and a very great Interest in me as an ancient familiar and an affectionate friend But that which hath moved memost unto it is a desire I have since besides all your former favours in our own Country you will needs be so kind as to importune me so often to the entertainment of your house where you are now a sojourner to trafficke with you upon the tearms of the Apostle by commerce and exchange of spirituall things for things carnall Ro. 15.27 1 Cor. 9.11 and the spirituall things wherein for the present I am desirous to make some returne for your favours are an advice and a prayer mine advice is that while your conjugall amity is visibly such as those that observe it doe very well perceive you are both very well pleas'd in your choyse you would now and then by meditation of a mortall divorce prepare not only for courage to encounter the pangs of death but which to either of you may haply prove a more difficult taske for patience to beare the sadnesse of a surviving life For a parting there must be betwixt you and yours as well as others and it will cost you the more in griefe when it commeth if you doe not prepare and fore-cast for it by serious study of the hard lesson of Self-denyall of what is most deare and delightfull to you before hand And this I meane not only for the affection communicated betwixt your selves but for that also which in common as you are Parents descends from you upon your hopefull children and which I wish may be moderated to such a measure as may become the children of an heavenly Father professing to pray for the fullfilling of his will according to the prescript of the Lords Prayer before your owne so shall you be sure to be gainers by the greatest losse that can be fall you Now my prayer is that God will be pleased so to unite your heartiest devotions and affections in himself that in his favour you may find a Soveraigne Antidote against all the discomforts of this life and that after it you may meet in a blessed fruition of him in a better world wherof there is none end This shall be a part of the daily intercession of him who desireth to be From my lodging in Pauls-Churchyard June 3. 1643. Really and will be sincerely serviceable to the welfare of you and yours John Ley. Errata in the first Sermon PAg a Epistle Dedicatory in the marg for Tzere write Tzere In the verses p. 1. lin 2. for breake reade breath lin 21. for Graces r. Iewels lin 26 for cinst reade rinst p. 2. lin 24. for Elisha reade Elijah In the Sermon p 2. lin 7. for Phylosopher reade Philosopher So also p. 21. lin last p 2. lin penult blot out the word your p 3. lin 8. marg alter Applic. blot out 1. p. 4 lin 7. marg blot out the word Vse p. 5. lin last but two marg blot out Vse 1. p. 15. lin 31. af●er the word sometimes reade is p 19 after the last lin blot out the last word deadly and reade it after the word no. p. 20