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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	believe_v	life_n	live_v	5,779	5	5.5101	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80275	A compendious narration of the most examplar life of the right honourable and most virtuous Lady Mary, late Countess of Shrewsbury Faithfully collected out of the writings of a most learned and worthy person who attended her many years: by a gentleman, who by reason of his long acquaintance and much conversation with her can testifie the truth of all that is here related.	Gentleman.	1677 (1677)	Wing C5608A; ESTC R224366	18,927	64

in that quintessence of this divine virtue humbleness of heart which still moved her to undervalue her self and to expresse to her ghostly Directour so much affliction of minde for her want of worth to merit those many blessings God had bestowed on her both spiritual and temporal upon account as she would frequently urge even with abundance of tears of her many sins and imperfections insomuch that he was forced for her comfort to use many perswasive discourses and reasons which her life and practise rendred abundantly convincing that she looked upon her few imperfections with magnifying glasses for no great sins ever stained her pure soul and not through Opticks which made a true discovery of them But as this true humility of hers would not permit her to take any notice of her own virtues but kept her heart still fixed on the consideration of her own unworthiness And so great did her own small faults appear in her own sight that the very reflection on any the least imperfection filled her eyes with tears and her heart with sorrow so on the other side no body was an higher magnifyer and esteemer of the virtues of others and principally when they shined in persons of High degree and would often bewail her self for not imitating such patterns and particularly she honoured and frequently celebrated in her Discourse that remarkable example of great Ladies for piety who truly trampled upon the pride and vanity of this world the Countesse of Arundel of the Lord D'Acres Family by birth betwixt whom and her self there had passed many Testimonies of mutual kindness And also that most excellent Lord the immediate Predecessor and Uncle of her Husband George Earle of Shrewsbury of whose great perfections she was many years an eye-witness upon whose death she forthwith repaired to her ghostly Father not with a heart filled with joy according to the usual strain of worldly Ladies for the honour that was thereby descended to her but full of a deep sense of her own unworthiness to succeed so Saintlike a person in so eminent a degree and therefore earnestly begged the assistance of his prayers that she might not soyle that honour by her sins but in some small measure at least imitate so good a president Neither was she less eminent in that high virtue preferable before sacrifice Obedience in imitation of our Blessed Saviour and divine Master who for us was made obedient to the death of the crosse and who though above all laws was for our sakes content to subject himself to humane Ordinations And she did not only practise this virtue in so high a manner as hath been already related in never having been guilty of any mortal breach of his holy Commandments but also by a most exact submission to all the Pastors and Prelates of his holy Catholick Church to whom he hath committed the cure of souls and those particularly to whom by virtue of that authority she had committed the regulation of her own conscience and spiritual concerns with whom she frequently consulted about those matters and never failed in a strict observance of their advises and directions And as to the duty of her own calling and most punctual compliance with the obedience due from a wife to a husband I may affirm without being contradicted by any one that knew her and her own constant family exceeded 60. persons that the fault would lye at the mens door if all marriages were not happy if all wife 's did but imitate her example For as she was most prudent in offering in an humble manner such advises upon just occasion as she judged conducing to my Lord her husbands advantage so did she ever with all cheerfulness submit to his determination And if he were at any time indisposed in health she not only expressed the tenderness of a most affectionate wife in her sense of his infirmity and her sollicitous providing of all remedies for his recovery but ever performed all the duties of a servant in his attendance All which he hath with much gratitude frequently acknowledged affirming that during the speace of above nineteen years wherein she lived his wife she never gave him the least cause of disgust but that he received much constant content from her agreeable and complasant conversation and much benefit from her frequent prudent and pious counsels and most of all from her exemplar practises And I am sure no person whatsoever whether domestick or other whether of the same Religion or a different had any difficulty to believe him For so high was the esteem of her virtues amongst all that every ones mouth was full of her praises And one Noble person though of a different Religion who made a condoling Visit to my Lord after her death speaking in the general language used by all when she was the Theme of the discourse said to him that he had no just cause to grieve for one who lived like a Saint upon earth and now shined like an Angel in heaven Her last sickness and Death AS her whole life was spent totally in a manner in successive acts of piety and devotion so did it please Almighty God in recompence of her virtue to grant her a most happy and Christian-like conclusion of it Her very last employments before she was consined to her dying Chamber and bed was a whole night to wit that of Christmasse spent according to her custome in acts of devotion she then joyning like a dutiful childe with her holy Mother the Catholick Church in celebrating the birth of the Saviour of the world and having then with her wonted pious preparation received the holy Eucharist Immediately after so many hours spent in such exercises going to retire to her rest she found her self seised with a most unusual coldness and with so violent an heart sickness that she concluded it to be mortal yet nevertheless as she had all her life shewed her self in a most exemplar manner a truly loving wife so would she now give dying Testimonies of it For neither would she quit my Lords chamber and Bed which she conceived her self about to quit for good and all nor yet give him any disturbance in it but with all patience suppressed the complaint of her sickness in silence not permitting any the least noise to be made by speech or otherwise or her bed to be warmed or any act of indulgence to be used to her self that might tend to the disquieting of him whom some indisposition had caused to retire sooner but lay quietly full of pains and as full of acts of confirmity to the divine will till he awaked then imparting to him the dangerous condition wherein she conceived her self and with that tenderness that became so truly indulgent and affectionate a parent recommending her children to his favour and care she desired in compliance with that obligation which lay upon her to make use of those means which God hath appointed for the preservation of health that Phisitians might be