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A37256	A sermon preached at the funeral of that incomparable lady the Honourable the Lady Mary Armyne by J.D., M.A. With an epistle and elegy by two grave divines.	J. D.	1676 (1676)	Wing D43; ESTC R27883	22,659	48

live till they are old before they truly know what the Baptismal Covenant is and to what and for what it doth engage them She was not addicted to Sects or novelties on pretence of rising to the highest form But she truly took the height of her Religiousness to consist in the height of Love to God and man and in close and constant obedience to Christ and confidence in his mediation And they that do so with all their hearts shall have a sound and durable consolation which will bear them up in life and death when the formal the Dogmatical and the superstitious Hypocrite hath a comfort which liveth and dieth with his prosperity or which is heartless and delusory as living but on the flattery of his party or of himself Though according to her rank she lived in the decency of a plentiful estate it was with humility and lowliness of mind Her Prudence Sobriety and Gravity were very exemplary and her impartiality in loving all that were truly Christians and their divisions and wrangling contentions she was much against she was not of their mind who take it to be a mark of Christs Disciples to be accusers of the Brethren and to reproach and vilifie and persecute his Disciples and deny them to be His that they may do it with less dishonour and remorse She took it to be no countenancing of Schism as some account it to relieve such servants of Christ in their distress as men accuse and afflict as Schismaticks though she was an adversary to real Schisme When she first heard of eighteen hundred Ministers ejected and silenced 1662 she gave a considerable summe towards the relief of some of them which I was acquainted with though I saw it not And the good works which she did before her departure I hope will Live and declare themselves and be an encouragement to others that are trusted with Riches to follow such examples and make themselves friends of that which to the worldling is the Mammon of unrighteousness It is a confirming evidence of the truth of Gods promises and the goodness of a holy life which I have observed in many who have lived to a great age in constant uprightness and serious Religion I have met with few young Christians that are like them in a peaceable mellowness of temper and an honest plainness in Religion most like to the description of the Primitive Christians and a readiness and willingness to be with Christ I have known many in a healthful state of very old age who having lived in exemplary piety and blamelesness of life have many years longed to be dissolved and to be with Christ not by any pain or misery in the flesh but from better Causes I suppose from all these three together 1. From Gods rewarding Grace who even in this life doth oft give persons of long and great fidelity an encouraging inviting foretast of Heaven And 2. from the ripeness of Grace And 3. somewhat from the ripeness of Nature which all make such Christians to be like ripe and mellow fruit which needeth not much shaking but easily drops into the owners hand O that more Christians did well consider how much of true Religion consisteth in a true cheerfull readiness to die and in living by Faith and Hope and Love above the Love of this Life and world and all the present interests of the Body They would then better lay out their thoughts labour and time and live and die in solid peace more answerable to their holy profession than most do such a Faith as will cause men to Live and Die to God in Christ will justifie and comfort and save the soul when many that suppose themselves more wise and Orthodox than others and think that they better please God and honour Christ by their several Notions Words and Forms which they account Evangelical Knowledge of godliness and take themselves for the happy defenders and the Truth and adversaries to other mens dangerous errors will find ere long that the sincerity and worth of knowledge and Belief are to be judged of by the measures of that Love and Holiness which they cause and that he that hath the most Love to God and man and the most fruitfull life and the most heavenly desires and hopes and comforts and the most sound and joyfull preparations for his change hath the best knowledge and Belief and is the most Religious person and of the highest form 1 Cor. 8.1 2 3. We all have knowledge and some that call their Brethren Ignorant or erroneous have no more than others Knowledge puffeth up but Charity edifyeth And if any man think that he knoweth any thing he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know But if any man Love God the same is known of him To live as this excellent Lady did in gravity prudence humility temperance in a Charitable peaceable impartial Religiousness studying Realities even God and her Redeemer Grace and Glory and her own Heart and Duty and how to do good and to prepare for the day of her accounts will prove more safe and comfortable at the last than the proud wrathfull turbulent Religion of such as strive to set up the CHURCH and CHRIST they mean THEMSELVES by Persecution or Division by hurting or destroying their fellow-Christians or reproaching them and avoiding them as unworthy of their Communion That I and all Christians may live in the Wisdom from above which is Pure and Peaceable and may escape the infernal wisdom or religion which is earthly sensual and calumniating and may be followers of them who through faith and patience do inherit the promise is the daily Prayer of An unworthy sinner RICHARD BAXTER Sept. 22. 1675. Upon the much-lamented Death of the truly HONOVRABLE very aged and singularly pious Lady the Lady Mary Armine MARIE ARMINE Anagram Rare mine I am For Piety Charity Humility and for Birth Matchless Magnificent Rare Noble was this earth Virtues and Graces Treasure what e're became True Saint she was might say Rare mine I am J.S. Mary Armine Anagram Ar mine Army HAil Mary full of Grace 'bove women blest A Name more rich in Saints than all the rest An Army of them fam'd in sacred Story All good none bad an unparallel'd Glory The Blessed Virgin well may lead the van Next follows Mary the Bethanian Next Mary Wife of Cleophas Another Mary was of James and Joses Mother How much is spoke of Mary Magdalen Of Mary St. Marks Mother we read agen At Rome a Mary commended by St. Paul All Saints yet not to pray unto at all A Mary was the Mother of our Lord A Mary 't was laid up in heart his word A Mary 't was that chose the better Part. A Mary 't was that wept with broken heart A Mary 't was that did anoint Christ's feet A Mary pour'd on 's Head the Spicknard sweet At Christs Cross standing Maries three I find When others fled they were not so unkind Christ dead interr'd at

and go to lye in his dearest fathers bosom Oh the unwillingess there is in us all to be gone Why pray we Thy Kingdom come and yet have no mind to be hailed out of this dirty house of bondage Why Alas the reason is because not weary of sin not sensible of the vanity of the creature Oh how defective are our faith love and longings after Heaven How wedded to the world even when going out of it Alas if you would not dye and go to Heaven 2 Cor. 5.6 8. Phil. 1.23 3.20 21. Heb. 11.9 10 13 14 16. 13.13 14. 4.9 11. what would you have more than beasts and Epicures If once truly desirous to be gone then the fear of death is gone Say then to your souls Ah poor and precious souls Awake your selves loose your selves from earth and flesh and make on with all your might towards these eternal mansions What places so sweet so excelling where we shall live in all manner of joys without the least heart-qualmeing fear of ever leaving them Oh what sweet words are these A building of God not made with hands eternal in the heavens able to put the serious soul that hath the title and hope of enjoying what they propose into a rapture and transport of desire and to look out at her windows and say Oh why are his chariot wheels so long a coming When shall the day dawn and shadows flee away Why do these clay-walls interpose between me and that glorious habitation that is above Thus I have done with my first Text and have but one word more to say by way of use to unite the first and second together thus If it be so That the souls of true Saints have a more glorious and magnificent habitation in the other world then this shews us the probable happiness of the more noble part of this Honourable Lady whose poor clay-house lies here before us that now must make worms its companions and moulder away to dust for I would not question her interest in Saint-ship and so consequently the triumphing of her soul in endless happiness This building of God not made with hands eternal in the heavens I come now to my second Text which is to give you some account of this elect Lady whose Interment we attend And what I shall say I 'le put under three Heads of Nature Art and Grace 1. Of Nature Here her Priviledges and accomplishments were considerable If we consider Her 1. As to Original she was an happy Branch of one of the most Noble and Illustrious Families in England whether you look at Descent Degree or Actings As to Descent of a long tract of time in the world among the oldest our present Nobility As to Degree high born I can say and say truly she was Atavis edita Regibus really ally'd to Kings and Princes As to Actings to pass over the great and Heroick performances both in matters Civil and Millitary done by her Progenitors in their native soil See Graston Speed S●r Rich. Baker in Henry the 6th Johannes Talbotus Comes Salopi●nsis vir clarissimus fortissimusque cujus virtute populi Anglicani nomen maxime Gallis sor midolosum extiterat Polid. Virg. Ang. Hist l. 23. the Talbots Name continues till this day so great in France for long and numerous Conquests and Triumphs in that Kingdom that they use to hush disturbances into quiet and composure by the mention of it I might here give you a true and large History but I must remember that time will but allow me to give you brief notices of what takes up and merits considerable Volumnes To be the Sons or children of Nobles is honourary even in Scripture Dialect which useth to overlook such things especially when found in the way of righteousness as here we have it 2. As to Feature and Activity of Body she was in the first of these more considerable even to her dying day then most of her date in the world which shewed what she was in the Summer of her age being what I have said in the deepest part of winter days I the rather mention this because of that old and in this place true saying Gratior è pulchro veniens è corpore virtus In the latter of these Activity of Body she was much above ordinary being very lively and stirring to her very close of time being able to walk with quickness and durableness without the help of hand or staff Something of this nature is recorded to honour the memory of Moses after his death Deut. 34.7 close 3. As to Natural Parts She was quick vivacious and comprehensive in judging of things even to the last hours of life Though she might be considerably past fourscore years of Age yet could discourse as rationally the day she died on as others in the flourish of age and life which was not a lightning before her death for forerunning days were the same As Rationality raiseth men above Beasts so the higher any are in it the neerer they are to Angels These Excellencies are admirably beyond those imaginary ones of external honours and riches and so some of the old poor Philosophers did wonderfully transcend the Conquerours and Emperours of their times Thus in a few words for her Priviledges and accomplishments as to Nature 2. We 'l consider them as to Art Her Ladyship was the owner of no mean Acquirements 1. In General she was well skill'd in all or the most things that referr'd to her Sex Degree and Place which referred to numerous things and so required such attainments which she had in an high measure arrived at But 2. I 'le speak to some things particularly but with brevity that I may have leave to say the more to the last General Head Her Ladyships Acquirements did appear in these particulars 1. She was not without skill in some languages more than her own native Tongue as I have often made remarks upon her knowledge in Latine and French 2. She was considerably skill'd in Divinity and History In the first not only knowing practical things but also very intelligent in matters notional and polemical In the second she had a good acquaintance with the Jewish Roman and Evangelical Histories in their older days As to both Divinity and History I can truly say That I have observed many of her Sex talk only with more confidence but less skill in either than her self 3. She was one that well understood how to manage her concerns distant and near to the very last of her time without even so much as small miscarriages I believe few that ever lived to such a number of days was ever in these things more exact than her Ladyship 4. And Lastly She was of a very obligeing deportment to the utmost date of life In this she was a Critick few could go beyond her with humble courtesie in carriage and words she would have obliged any thing she conversed with for as she was the owner of activity of