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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02414	Pieties pillar: or, A sermon preached at the funerall of mistresse Elizabeth Gouge, late wife of Mr. William Gouge, of Black-friers, London With a true narration of her life and death. By Nicholas Guy, pastor of the church at Edge-ware in Middlesex.	Guy, Nicholas, b. 1587 or 8.	1626 (1626)	STC 12543; ESTC S103587	19,555	63

exitus but transitus not obitus but abitus not a dying but a departing A transmigration and exodus out of our earthly pilgrimage vnto our heauenly home Fratres mortui saith Saint Augustine non sunt amissi sed praemissi Profectio est saith Tertullian quam putas mortem A passage from the valley of death to the land of the liuing That all true Beleeuers departing hence are still aliue is euident by the words of our Sauiour that God who is the God of Abraham Isaac and Iacob is not the God of the dead but of the liuing If the father of the faithfull be still aliue no doubt but so are all his children who departed hence in the faith of their father Death to them is but a sleepe So is it said of Dauid of Salomon and of other Kings of Israel and of Iuda that they slept with their fathers So in the New Testament such as are dead in the Lord are said to sleepe in Christ So great a resemblance is there between sleepe and death that sleepe is called by Ouid mortis imago by Virgil consanguineus Lethi Seneca cals it the brother Hesiode the Sister of death Sleepe is a kinde of death and death a kinde of sleepe I would not haue you to bee ignorant saith the Apostle brethren concerning them which are asleepe that yee sorrow not euen as others which haue no hope For if wee beleeue that Iesus died and rose againe euen so them also which sleepe in Iesus will God bring with him The Apostle saith that the Christ the Lord who giues life to all things is dead and mortall man saith he sleepeth which manner of speech at the first sight may seeme strange but there is good reason for it For wee therefore sleepe because Christ died His death made our death but a sleepe Christ by his bitter death made death sweet vnto vs made it I say but the very shadow of death so that death cannot hurt vs because Christ hath taken away sinne the sting thereof O death where is thy sting Lastly though their bodies sleepe in the graue yet their soules liue a glorified life in heauen So that the Saints departed are dead in their worst part onely but liuing in their best euen in that wherein they desire to liue most as Martial an Heathen Poet diuinely Sed lugere nefas nam quite Prisce reliquit Viuit qua voluit viuere parte magis Sith death then to the true Beleeuers in Christ is but a sleepe a passage from misery to eternall happinesse Let vs sing with old Simeon a nunc Dimittis and reioyce that our warfare all our combates and conflicts with the world the flesh and the diuell are ended So long as we are in this world wee must continually fight against those lusts which fight against our soules When we haue conquered couetousnesse lust riseth vp against vs when carnall concupiscence is suppressed ambition takes place when ambition and pride are foyled drunkennesse endeuours to draw vs on to eternall destruction I know that the men of this world count it their blisse to be caried away by the world the flesh and the Diuell and to doe seruice vnto them But the children of God account it their bane to bee in any the least subiection vnto them and therefore doe they continually band themselues against them Blame them not therefore though they reioyce when the combate is ended and all their enemies conquered and crowned What Souldier is not glad when the combate is ended and his enemie conquered who in a great tempest at Sea would not gladly be in a quiet and calme harbour and who in the sea of this tempestuous world would not giue this world to arriue at the hauen of eternall happinesse here is nothing but wailing and weeping Who would not bee there where all teares are wiped away Our Sauiour told his Apostles being sorrowfull for his departure If yee loued me yee would reioyce because I goe to my Father To me saith S. Paul to liue is Christ to dye is gaine Let him therefore dread death who is not borne againe of water and of the Holy Ghost but remaines enthralled to the flames of hell fire Let him feare to die who shall passe from the naturall death to eternall Let him I say be daunted when death drawes nigh who when hee shall passe out of this world shall eternally be tormented in the flames of hell fire but let all true Beleeuers in Christ Iesus whose home is heauen with the Traueller thinke the time long till they returne home to their owne countrey where after the wearisome trauell of this life they shall liue eternally in all rest and happinesse Thus much of my Text. GIue mee leaue to adde a few words about the particular occasion of this our meeting which is euident by the obiect here before our eyes and maketh vnto vs a visible Sermon of our mortalitie For it is a dead corps which was within these few dayes the receptacle of the euer-liuing soule of Mistris Elizabeth Gouge A soule which while it remained in that receptacle enabled the same thorow the good grace of God infused into it to doe much honour to God and good to man Which that I may the better demonstrate vnto you I will make bold to set before you a briefe iust and true view of the whole course of her life that though the substance of her soule bee now taken from among vs to be among those i●… spirits which are made perfect in heauen and her bodie to be couered from ou● sight in the earth in assured hope o● the Resurrection thereof to eternal life yet her graces may remaine fresh among vs for the greater consolation of her friends and imitation of vs all Shee was the daughter of such Parents as while they liued were of very good note and name Her father Mr Henry Calton was a Mercer and Citizen in London of good worth Her mother was of a good Gentlemans house Mr Cois of Stubbers in Essex Both her Parents died while she was yong and had not her Mothers owne brother Master William Coys taken vpon him the tuition of his Sisters children they had beene made a prey But he like a good Mordecai brought vp his said Sisters children which were three in number a sonne who was drowned in swimming while he was a youth and two daughters the eldest whereof was this Gentlewoman whose Funerall wee now solemnize The yonger still liueth being maried to the yonger brother of this Gentlewomans husband Such was the said Guardians care ouer these Orphanes as after he had trained them vp some while in his owne house for their better education hee put them forth to board in a pious painfull faithfull Ministers house Master Huckles by name of Hatfield-Broad-oake in Essex whose wife had a great name and that not without iust desert for skill and faithfull care in training vp yong

she her selfe with her owne hands of her owne motion relieued So as herein also shee was like to that good woman whom the wiseman thus commendeth She stretcheth out her hands to the poore 4. Her Piety as it was the best of her graces whereby all the rest were seasoned so was it not lesse eminent then the rest For she was a conscionable obseruer of the Lords Day and a constant frequenter of the weeke day Lectures where she inhabited Shee did both her selfe diligently and reuerendly attend to the dayly exercises of piety in her house and also caused her children and seruants to do the like She had also her set houres euery day which secretly betwixt God and her selfe shee spent in holy Deuotions With her owne hand shee penned sundry deuout Prayers whereof some being for helps to humble her soule the more before God were very large She hath also left written by her selfe many diuine directions for Deuotions She further tyed her selfe by a set dayly taske to reade the holy Scriptures whereby she was able readily to answer any question propounded about the History and Doctrin of the Scriptures Shee did also spend much time in reading English books of diuinity whereof shee had a pretty Library She carefully put in practise this precept of the Apostle to wiues Let them aske their Husbands at home Her piety left her not till her breath left her For to come to the time of her sicknesse and departure being long weake before her departure and great with Childe shee was disabled from doing so much worke as in her health she vsed to do yet was shee not idle but spent the more time in reading conferring with her Husband and that especially about euidences of true grace and assurances of saluation It pleased the Diuine prouidence about a yeere and a quarter before when shee was great with Childe to visit her with a Dropsie though shee was very temperate in her diet no Wine bibber Of her Liuer she complained from her youth so as questionlesse her ill-disposed Liuer was the cause of her disease After her deliuery of that Childe thorow Gods blessing on the meanes which her good Neighbour Master Doctor Argent an ancient experienced and skilfull Physician prescribed she was recouered and continued very well from September 1624 till Febr following when conceiuing againe with Child the Dropsie returned againe Notwithstanding the returne of that Disease she was on the sixt of October 1625 deliuered of her thirteenth and last Childe which was a sonne and retained such strength as ordinarily shee was wont to doe in the time of her Childbed so as on the baptizing day she sate vp as women in that time vse to doe But before shee gathered such strength as might enable her to take Physicke for her Disease death began to seaze vpon her For on the very day wherein the foresaid Doctor Argent had prescribed such Physicke as was fit for one in her case which was the fourteenth day after her deliuery the violence of her Disease was such as accustomed rest and vse of vnderstanding was taken from her This made her talke much but in all her talke not an impious word came from her Her tongue was neuer accustomed thereto But that it might appeare how fast fixed and deeply rooted piety was in her in her greatest weaknesse and extremity if any Broth Drinke or other sustenance were offered her she would lift vp her eyes to Heauen and craue a blessing of him whom she knew to be aboue In that her restlesse time she was much perswaded by her Husband to doe what he aduised To short questions especially about her Christian faith hope she would giue short but very pithy and comfortable answers After she had thus remained two whole dayes it pleased the Lord to giue some rest whereby for two dayes she recouered good vse of her vnderstanding and made good vse thereof by giuing many good euidences of her sted faith in Iesus Christ Which after she had done the former violence of her Disease returned vpon her and soone depriued her of her sweet breath Thus would God take her away euen in her calling in the time of her Child-bed wherein for a woman to dye is as for a Souldier to dye in battell yea as for a Preacher to dye in the Pulpet They that in Scripture are recorded to dye in that time are recorded to dye as Saints as the Wiues of Iaakob and Phinehas and so vndoubtedly did this pious Matron whose soule euer in that moment wherein by Prayer it was commended to God ascended to God with whom she now as we haue great and iust cause to hope raigneth in euerlasting glory whether God bring vs also in our time thorow Iesus Christ our Lord to whom with the Father and the holy Ghost bee all honour and glory now and for euer Amen The memory of the iust is blessed FINIS Luke 11. Psal 27.10 2 Cor. 8.12 * Mistresse GOVGE brought forth her last Childe into this world and went her selfe out of this world in the Country house of Master Simon and Mistresse Anne Geering who inhabiting the greatest part of the yeere in Black friers Londo were desirous to shew to their Pastor there such respect as the Sunemite and her husband did to Elisha Onesiphorus to Paul Ioh 13.23 Ioh. 3.16 〈◊〉 1 17. 2 Cor 8.12 Mat. 4. 1 Tim. 2.4 Ezek. 33.11 Reu. 1.18 Mat. 28.18 2 King 5.7 Joh. 1.1 4. Psal 36.9 Gen. 2.7 Act. 17.28 Gal. 2.20 1 Ioh. 5.12 Iam. 1.17 1 Sam. 15 29 Prov. ●2 ● Acts 10.34 Isa 24.16 Rom. 11.29 Article 7. Hos 13.9 Mat. 28.19 Mar. 16.15 Rom. 1.16 Rom. 10.11 12. Psal 76.1 Psal 147.20 Psal 119.105 Heb. 11.6 〈◊〉 115. Phil. 3.12 Rom. 12.1 Eph 3 17. Gal. 2.20 Rom 6.4 Col. 3.1 1 Joh. 5 5. Gal. 5.24 1 Tim. 5.6 Mat. 8.22 Reu. 3.1 Iohn 17.3 Math. 22 32. 1. Kin 2.10 11.43 1. Cor. 11.30 15.18 Iob. 11.11 1. Thes 4.13 14. 1. Cor. 15.55 Ioh. 16.20 Ioh. 14.24 Phil. 1.21 Pro. 31. ●0 ● Tit. 2.5 1. Tim. 5.13 2 Tim. 1.5 3.15 Eph. 6.4 Prou 31.1 Prou. 31. 20. 1 Cor. 14 35.