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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

Infidels while they profess the Christian Faith 2. They that by false accusations would make the best men seem the worst and make serious Religion suspected to be but humorous singularity and hypocrisie and who upon lying fame will vend any calumny against the innocent and that upon worldly interest and the advantage of civil discords will injuriously make good men odious to their Superiours and the Rulers of the World 3. Yea and those that while they pretend to the strictest religiousness do maculate that profession with scandalous practices with pride and self-conceit with perverse opinions and with such miscarriages and follies as tend to perswade the unbelieving world that Christians are as bad and contemptible as any other men Christ himself teacheth men as to know the thorns and thistles by their pricks and rending property and the wolves in sheeps cloathing by their devouring of his Flocks for those are the fruits to which he doth refer us so to know the Vine and the Fig-tree also by their fruits and his Disciples by their extraordinary love to one another and to all men And to tell unbelievers that Christians are holy self-denying loving humble heavenly persons when they see no such thing appearing in their converse yea when they commonly see the contrary will seem more incredible to them than to tell them of Saints in the unseen world where such persons may be for ought they know though they take invisible things to be uncertain And if Christianity made no greater a change upon mans soul than to bring men to a lifeless uneffectual formality and to paint over a fleshly worldly life with a few good words and to differ from Philosophers no further than some Learned Divines themselves do that is not in their holy Love obedience humility patience hope and joy but in their opinions and words in going to Church and saying their Prayers and keeping up their several forms and orders and contending fiercely for their several Sects I could not my self be heartily a Christian The Kingdom of God is not in Word but in Power and it is not meats and daies and ceremonies but Righteousness and Peace and joy in the Holy Ghost And he that in these things serveth Christ is acceptable to God and approved of men except they be Tyrants Sectaries or malignant Vpon these accounts I take it to be a real part of his Masters service which this Reverend Brother hath here performed in transmitting to posterity so much of the exemplary Life of this excellent Lady in her deserved praise And as it is said of Antonine that it is the top of all his Praises that while a multitude of Writers Heathen and Christian described his great virtues no one was found that contradicted them and spake against him So I think our Brothers work here undertaken is such as is like to meet with no gainsayers nor need he fear least any should cast any blots upon the pourtraiture which he hath drawn Those of us who are called publickly to militate against the errors and wickedness of the world must expect to have as many defame calumniate and reproach us as to praise us But such persons as are placed in a calmer Region and are called to serve God in a less-militant way and that with the advantage of Wealth and Honour do use more to escape the scourge of tongues Indeed the Life of this Lady was such as of it self without any such advantage might have silenced or shamed obtrectation I remember not that ever I heard any person speak a word to her reproach And though I was seldom with her my self yet these last fifteen years I lived so near her as that I might easily hear the voice of fame and that little converse which I had with her was such as gave me opportunity to know her more intimately than many that saw but her blameless and pious Conversation For her business with me was no other than to open the state of her soul and confess her infirmities and produce her evidences for Heaven and to desire my judgement of them with my Counsel for her further strength and comfort and to ask my advise concerning such works of publick good which she Charitably intended and liberally as I am well informed did perform By which I perceived that she had a safe and well setled state of soul not free from all degrees of fear and lesser doubtings of her self and far from a presumptuous unhumbled self-justifying But her evidences were sound and her discerning of them was so clear and sure as enabled her to conclude her Right to Life and with the greater peace to think of Death which as she had opened to me not long before so did she over again at large in her sickness not many dayes before her death when after her complaints for such imperfections of grace as were her trouble she professed the full dedication of her self to God her firm consent to the terms of his Covenant and her longings after perfect holiness and her trust in the merits and mediation of her Redeemer After this we were in hope for a day or two that she was like to be recovered But hearing of my troubles she sent her servant to me to enquire of my Case and was dead before he returned home But as she lived to God so God gave her a long life and full of mercies Though she had long been troubled with a sore and dangerous disease which had painful and perillous paroxysmes or critical fits * Stones voided by the intestines supposed to be from the Gall. God had in her later years given her great ease from it though it is not unlike that it was the root of that fainting aguishness which took her hence So that to near fourscore years of age she served God in competent health and serenity of mind Though she sprang from an Honourable Family enclined to the Roman Sect God was her Teacher and did confirm her not only in the Protestant Reformation but also in the true Love of Practice and seriousness in the Religion which she professed she was not like those deluded formalists who contend most furiously for this Religion against that or for that against this while indeed they are of none and that will be zealous Papists or zealous Protestants or zealous in more singular Sects but will never be perswaded to be zealous Christians who will furiously persecute or at least reproach those that are not of their Church or side or way as erroneous irreligious persons while nothing can prevail with them to be themselves on Christs side against the flesh the world and the Devil who are implacably hot for their several parties and opinions but as to a heavenly mind and life and Love and good works and humility and self-denyal they are mortally cold who fiercely contend for the Baptismal water and the Christian vestments ornaments and name while they inwardly fight against the word and spirit of Christ or