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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

Pieties Pillar OR A SERMON PREACHED AT the Funerall of Mistresse ELIZABETH GOVGE late Wife of Mr. WILLIAM GOVGE of Black-friers London With a true Narration of her Life and Death By Nicolas Guy Pastor of the Church at Edge-ware in Middlesex PROV 31 30. A Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised LONDON Printed by George Millar dwelling in Black-Friers 1626. TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE SIR THOMAS LAKE Knight of CANONS in Middlesex SIR THe Parable of our Sauiour in the Gospel must bee my Apologie for the publication of this Sermon to the eye and censure of the world the which at the first when I preach't it I thought not worthy your iudicious eares in my priuate Church but being ouercome by the importunity of the reuerend Diuine Master Gouge I condescended though sore against my will to giue way to his desire thus haue I made a Vertue of Necessity and as it is in the Prouerbe Vnica fidelia duos dealbaut parietes I haue both satisfied his pious desire for the preseruation of the memory of his vertuous and religious Wife and also hauing no better to present your Honor withal I am bold to offer this as the poore man brought water in his hands to Artaxerxes only as a testimony of my willingnesse to returne something to your Honors hands from whom I haue receiued so much euen all the maintenance that now I haue either immediately from your Honour or mediately by your Honours procurement It was my happinesse to be trained vp by that Illuminate Doctor Prelate Pillar of our Church your Brother and the now most reuerend and religious Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells and since to be sustained by your Honour So that I may iustly say with the Psalmist When my Father and my Mother forsooke mee the Lord tooke me vp and committed mee to the charge of one Brother of prime place in the Church for my spirituall estate and to your Honour the other Brother of principall place in the common wealth for my temporall Now besides your Honours fauours to me in particular your many reall fauours and great affection to the Church and Churchmen both when you were in publike place of Honourable imployment to our lately gracious Soueraigne King Iames of euer famous and happy memory and also since your priuate retirednesse may iustly challenge the best of our Labours to be consecrated to so learned and noble a Patron of Learning Besides these former respects your Honour hath yet another interest in these my weake endeuours because you went chiefe amongst many worthy and worshipfull Auditors which honoured the Funerall with your presence In all these respects I hope your Honour will fauourably be pleased to accept that of mee which Almighty God doth of vs all a willing heart and desire Saint Paul tells vs in his second Epistle to the Corinthians that God accepts vs according to that which wee haue not according to that which wee haue not If in this your Honour pardon my ouer-great presumption you shall more and more make me Obliged in all the bonds of respect and seruice to your Honour Nicolas Guy To the Reader Good Reader IT fell out with the Gentlewoman at whose Funerall this Sermon was preached as it did with Iaakobs beloued Rachel In a strange place they both fell in trauell and in the time of their child-bed they both departed this life Answerably as Iaakob would not haue his Rachels memory perish with her corps but for better preseruation thereof erected a Pillar vpon her graue so to the same end it is desired that this Funerall Sermon may be published Rachel could not be more deare to her Iaakob then this Elizabeth was to her William In her life time she carried her selfe worthy of all honour and at her Funerall she was honoured with all the honour that on such a sudden the Country where she departed could afford Her sweet soule left her body about one of the clocke in the afternoone of the 26. of October 1625. being Wednesday whereupon her Corps being infected with the Dropsie and all the Pores of it open by reason of her late trauell and weakenesse in Child-bed could not bee long kept but on the Fryday following which was Simon and Iudes day was buried vnder the Communion Table in the Church at Edgeware in the County of Middlesex being accompanied with a great multitude of sundry sorts of persons Honourable Worshipfull and others For besides that two whole Parishes there met together Knights Ladies Iustices of Peace Ministers and other good Christians round about that place came farre and neere to the solemnization of that Funerall That the due honour done to her may be more then the honour of one day this Pillar of Pietie is now erected for encouragement to others in their life time to walke worthy of honour A SERMON Preached at the Funeral of Mistresse Elizabeth Gouge late Wife of Master William Gouge of Black-Fryers London IOHN 11.26 Whosoeuer liueth and beleeueth in me shall neuer dye THE Embleme of the Euangelist Saint Iohn was the Eagle which being King of all the Fowles of the Heauen soares the highest of all other Birds so may Saint Iohn in his Gospell claime precedency before the other Euangelists hee was the Disciple of our Sauiours loue his Fauorite on Christs bosome he leaned at Supper and to him Christ at his death commended his Mother so that wee may thinke that Christ did impart more to him then to the rest therefore shall wee finde in his Gospell higher mysteries of the nature and workes of Christ then in the other and in him alone we finde this myracle of raising Lazarus which if it bee lawfull to compare may seeme to be the greatest of all that Christ did whilst hee was in this world It is a story not altogether vnbefitting this present occasion if it were not for the disparity of the sexe Both of them treat of Funeralls I will first tell you what this was in the Gospell and after I haue done with that this present occasion shall bee presented vnto you I must not in the relation of this Story spend time vpon the seuerall circumstances wherein the Euangelist is so exact that 's done at large in the Chapter onely for introduction of this particular which wee haue in hand some passages I will point out vnto you First of the Person that was sicke and dyed Secondly of the meanes his friends vsed for his recouery Thirdly of Christs comfortable speech which he gaue vnto them First for the Person it was Lazarus brother to Martha and Mary Magdalene which washed Christs feet with her teares and wiped them with her Haires and anointed them with Ointment this was his Kindred by nature and by grace hee was honoured with the title to be a friend of Christs whom Christ more especially loued Thus euen they who are the most dearely beloued of Christ must looke for afflictions and infirmities