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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44075	Two consolatory letters written to the right honorable the Countess of Westmorland The first upon the occasion of the death of Sr Roger Townshend, Baronet: the second upon the death of Mrs Anne Cartwright, Her Honour's children by Sir Roger Townshend, Baronet, her former husband.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing H2324B; ESTC R218018	16,407	30

honoured or rejoyce all the Members rejoyce with it If your Son so considerable a part of your self come to honour why do you not acknowledg it Why do you not rejoyce together with him I find Gen. 31.27 that Laban chides Jacob his Son-in-law for stealing and carrying away his Daughters as Captives saying he would have sent him away with mirth and with Songs and with Tabrel and with Harps when he was returning home to the Earthly Canaan Madam Let your Son go to the Heavenly Canaan Let his soul return home to his own Countrey and his Father's House send him not away with bitter cryes and tears but rather with mirth and songs with Tabrel and Harp What joy musick and dancing do we read of at the return of the Prodigal who had been spiritually dead namely in his sins and trespasses but was now alive because he had part in the first Resurrection We read of no such joy no such musick and dancing at the raising up of Lazarus out of the Grave Let this teach you that your joy for your Son 's having part in the first Resurrection and thereby having passed from death to life so that the second death on him can have no power should moderate your sorrow for his going thorough the valley of the shadow of death in such Company too as that you need fear none evil for God is with him Psal 23. If there was joy in Heaven among the holy Angels at his first conversion from being a Sinner to a Saint as sure there was let not there be immoderate sorrow upon Earth at his translation from amongst Sinners to Saints and Angels to rejoice together with them yea into his Master's Joy Could the Saints in Heaven sympathize with their Friends sorrows on Earth the Mother's Grief would eclipse the Son's Joy All tears would never be wiped from his Eyes so long as there were any in yours His Joy would not be full so long as your Sorrows overflow Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord is a true and faithful saying in the most Golden Age and most Halcyon days in the World How blessed is he then that dyed in the Lord and in peace on his bed in an Iron Age in times of War and Blood In such times of publike Calamity there is a Wo denounced in Scripture to them that are with Child or give suck in those days but no where do we read of any wo to them whose Children God takes to himself from the evil to come in those days It may be you say in your heart Had he dyed in his own Countrey at home then you could have born it but this doth imbitter your grief That he dyed in his travel and in a strange Land Madam He had done so if he had returned hither and dyed at home if in his own Land in his own House and upon his own Bed he had been but a stranger and pilgrim as all his fathers were Had he returned to England where would he have had meet Companions of his Age and Piety Had he gone to Rome I believe he would scarce have found one like himself In Heaven he was matched as soon as ever he came thither and that of his Countrey-men There 's the good King Edward the sixth and the good Lord Harrington young men famous for Vertue and Piety in their generation Again Your Son had as short and safe a passage to Heaven from Geneva as he could have had from his own House at Raynham And though his Corps came not to the Sepulchers of his Fathers yet he lies interr'd and intomb'd with honour near the Noble and Pious Marquess of Vico and not far from the Holy and Renowned Calvin He dyed far absent from his dear Mother and many of his Noble Friends yet he dyed in the House of the Reverend Mr. Diodate In the presence of his very loving and only Brother was brought to his Grave with very great solemnity and honour and lieth intombed in Geneva a City for Religion and Liberty one of the most famous throughout the World Thus far I have endeavoured to comfort your Ladiship but to deal plainly with you If the days and years of your mourning should not be past I must as the Prophet Isaiah sometimes in another case did wax very bold and chide you It is very observable how God takes up Samuel though a Prophet a man of God for his excessive mourning for the casting off of Saul saying to him How long wilt thou mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him And may not I in like manner say to you sorrowing for your Son advanced to an Eternal Kingdom surely you may believe God doth How long wilt thou mourn for thy Son seeing I have received him What should I say more I wish I have not said too much already namely that which may trouble you whilst it was mine endeavour to comfort you Pray Madam be comforted Pray Madam comfort your self Take the same course to comfort your self now he is gone home which I suppose you did when he was in his Travels abroad Read over his Letters Discourses Meditations or any thing of his by you In these as it is said of Abel he being dead yet speaketh And thus you may converse with him still and as long as you live And if your Ladiship please pray sometimes at your leisure look upon this Epistle it is though not a Letter from him yet a kind of Letter of or concerning him or if you will herein you have his Image and Superscription here you have his Picture to the life what manner of man he was when at Cambridg And Madam this Letter tells you or here you may read your Son is well your Son liveth he is happie and his memorie is blessed and I wish all the Friends of Sir Roger Townshend when they die may be as this young man is And for your Ladiship especially my Prayer is That the consolations of the Almighty may not seem small unto you and that the God and Father of all consolations would fill you with everlasting consolation and good hope through grace and fill you with all joy and peace in believing that since he may not come to you while you live you may go to him when you dye And now if any should blame me for commemorating the dead so as I have done in this Epistle saying the valley of the shadow of death is and ought to be in the Land of forgetfulness I appeal to the parallel practise of holy men of God recorded in the Sacred Scripture for my justification There I find David a man after Gods own heart making honourable mention of Saul and of Jonathan presently after their death 2 Sam. 1.17 And if some of the Learned judg aright upon v. 18. taking order to perpetuate their memory to succeeding generations There I meet with the commemoration of Moses Aaron and Samuel Psal 99.26 and of Noah and Job a good while after

they were dead And lastly there 's a solemn commemoration of Josiab of his goodness to after-ages 2 Chron. 35 25 26. But if on the other side any Friend should be offended at my remembring him whom they could never forget saying at my pouring out of this Box of precious Ointment of his good Name on him Wherefore is this loss My answer to such is That those devout Women who prepared Spices and Odours to perfume our Saviour's dead body which it was decreed should not see corruption as well as she that poured on him a Box of costly Ointment whilst alive have all their Piety recorded to their praise in the Gospel to this day I hope the good name and blessed memory of Sir Roger Townshend shall never see corruption for the name of the wicked shall rot but the righteous shall be bad in everlasting remembrance yet I deem it a friendly office and such a practice as maybe pardoned for one that had once the honour of such a Pupil at least to perfume your Ladiships Closet with your Son 's sweet Name and gracious odoriferous qualities sent you in this Paper And again I say I have done it for his burial that is I humbly present your Ladiship with this Piece as a Funeral-Sermon for your Son Sir Roger Townshend for so the manner of the English is to bury What pity is it that the light of his good example should be put under a bushel or put out in obscurity by his death and not rather be set up in a Candlestick to give light to all that are in the house Truly my desire is by this means if the will of God be so to provoke to emulation chiefly all young Gentlemen especially those of his Kindred Friends and Acquaintance and to save some yea all of them But I shall leave praising of the dead and betake my self to my prayers for the living And for this cause I bow my knees to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ of whom the whole Family in Heaven and Earth is named That he would grant that that unfeigned faith which dwelt first in his Grandmother the Lady Vere and in your Ladiship his dear Mother in you still growing up to a full Assurance and I am perswaded in him also in whom it is already changed into Vision and Fruition may be intailed and doubled upon his rightful Heir and only Brother * Now Lord Townshend Sir Horatio Townshend and all of that Race and Family their Noble Kindred and Allies and that there may not want a man of the House of the Townshends to stand for and before the Lord for ever So prayeth MADAM Your Honour 's very humble Servant in and for the Lord Thomas Hedges TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE THE COUNTESSE OF WESTMORLAND MADAM FOrasmuch as Womens Names are swallowed up in the Names of their Husbands whilst they live whence amongst the Hebrews Women have a Name signifying Forgetfulness and forasmuch as your deceased Daughter Mrs. Cartwright hath left two Children behind her so young that 't is impossible they should ever remember their dear Mother's Face Give me leave to endeavour to preserve some memories of her and to set them before the eyes at least of those little ones in time to come that they may learn to write after her Copy and be known to be her Children by imitation of her Vertues as well as by participating of her Likeness Your Ladiship may be pleased to remember I endeavoured the like Representation of your dear Son her Brother my Pupil Sir Roger Townshend of blessed memory many years since and now my humble request is That your Ladiship would favour my present Essay for your lately deceased Daughter Mrs. Cartwright my Neighbour that I may not separate the Brother and Sister dead who as they were one in a holy life so now after their death they are not divided She her self was pleased with the reading of the Lives of others though strangers to her and therefore I hope your Ladiship will not be displeased at my writing something of hers your so near a Relation I know she was a Woman subject to like passions with other Women breeding Women and perhaps more than many others yet she knew it and I am informed prayed against it and had got ground of it Yet this I can say and say truly of her That though she lost Eight Children and four of them Sons yet I do not remember that ever I heard her though often grieve and sometimes groan yet never to grumble against the Divine Majesty and yet I must say of her Her love to her Children was wonderfully passing the love of most Women I have heard her say I had rather have Children without Land than Land without Children 'T is true she had a great spirit and a good spirit also for she would be hot and zealous for God his Glory Worship People and Interest in the world as well as in her own Cause and Concernment and that at a time when others who had been scalding hot proved luke-warm if not key-cold in Religion In the ninth Chapter of the Acts of the Holy Apostles we read it an Argument or Evidence of that chosen Vessel of our Lord the Apostle Paul his Conversion Behold he prayeth and let me say Behold a Daughter of Abraham behold a Servant an Handmaid of the Lord for behold she prayed she had learned to cry daily Abba Father and sometimes to offer up strong cries with prayers and tears to him that was able to sanctifie and save her Pray she could and did both in the Church in the Family in her Closet she served God alone and with others she was not above Forms nor under them but could join in prayer either with or without a Book as occasion served She was a Friend to extraordinary times of Prayer as well as ordinary Once before her Lying-in she sent a Letter and a Messenger a Minister to crave the Bishops leave to have a Fast in her House to beg Gods blessing in her extremitie and though she could pray well her self and did use to do so with her Maids and Children on the Lord's Day yet she did not disdain to desire the assistance of other Womens prayers though her Inferiors with her and for her and as the Angel said to Cornelius so may I say of her That her Prayers and her Alms were come up before God As she was one that did ask Mercy of God so she was one that did shew Mercy to the Poor She made constant provision twice a week of Meat Bread and Broath for the Poor of the Town where she lived She would visit the Poor when sick and would afford them her Counsel and Cordials too for their recovery She would desire that the Poor might have the help both of the Minister and Doctor the Soul and Body-Physician both When there was occasion as often there was to send for Doctors from Oxford for her Children she