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A32087	A funeral sermon preached upon occasion of the decease of the eminently pious Mrs. Elizabeth Williams, late wife of Mr. Daniel Williams, who departed this life, June the 10th, 1698, Ætat 62 with some account of her exemplary character taken for the most part out of her own papers / by Edmund Calamy.	Calamy, Edmund, 1671-1732.	1698 (1698)	Wing C272; ESTC R29171	36,308	112

many more that might be produc'd of the Fervour of Her Piety and the Vigour of Her Grace She as is usual with the best of Christians had Her Complaints She thus expresseth Her Self in one of Her Papers OH my dark Vnderstanding Oh my hard and unbelieving Heart My Heart is the worst Part of Me. Coldness and deadness of Heart is my Fault I desire to repent and to be humbled for it She had a very tender Conscience which made Her mourn in Secret for those Things which others would have taken little notice off But withal She had Her Comforts Hopes and Ioys Her Religion did not lie all in complaining but in a Life of Faith Self-denial delight in GOD and Preparation for Heaven Her Heart was so set on the Coelestial Felicity that She seem'd as it were out of the World while She was in it and hardly any converst with Her but they might observe She lookt upon Her Self as belonging to another Countrey THE Grounds of my longing for Heaven saith She in one of Her Papers are those glorious Enjoyments that are there to be met with GOD's Presence Perfection of Grace Fulness of Ioy Excellency of Glory Plenty of best Wealth and Peace c. SHE made no great Stir or Figure here below Her aim seem'd to be to pass through the World without much Observation She was not indeed fram'd for a Life of much Action but was a great Lover of Retiredness I think I may justly say to a fault By Reason that She would in all Probability have more Consulted Her own Benefit and have been more useful to others had She been more in Conversation But I pretend not to be giving an Account of one that was without Imperfections and Defects Though withal 't is not unworthy Observation that She by Her private and retir'd sort of Life avoided a great many Snares which much Conversation hath attending it which also was no small Inducement to it THERE is one Thing which in Justice to Her Memory I cannot forbear mentioning as the Matter of my own Observation which hath been Noted also by many others She was a Pattern of a Loving and Respectful Wife A more Reverential Respect for an Husband join'd with a more tender Affection I must declare I never saw nor ever expect to meet with And more than once hath She intimated to me Her entire well-pleasedness with the disposal of Providence in fixing Her Condition in the World assuring me 't was more to Her Satisfaction and Content than if Her Circumstances upon Marriage had not only equall'd but exceeded what according to common Course She from Her Birth and Estate might have had Reason to have expected SHE was not without a Variety of Difficulties and Trials in the Course of Her Life and no wonder since all Things we know come alike to all at present and there 's no knowing either Love or Hatred by these Things But She under all carried it with a Christian Patience and Composure and often had recourse to Her smal Her Everlasting Home for Support THOUGH She had met with many Troubles yet none ever came so near Her as the loss of Her dearly beloved Sister The Countess of Mountrath a few Weeks since which did indeed sink Her Spirits and was too hard for Her This may seem somewhat strange after the foregoing Account of Her But the best have their Weaknesses Though there is this to be said in Her Case She had before been much indispos'd and was not recover'd when the Tidings of that Stroke first reacht Her She receiv'd the News of it upon a Surprizal which encreas'd the Impression it made and then She pent up Her Grief and would not give it vent in the usual way which was the occasion of its over-setting Her She was fearful of dishonouring GOD by immoderate Mourning and thereupon suffer'd Her Grief to boil within Whereas had She let it run over it would in all probability have been much better with Her So that there was an Holy Tenderness observable even in that which occasion'd the Distemper which hath now laid Her in Her Grave A little before Her Disorder came upon Her She express'd Her Self thus one Morning to Her Husband I know not what I may meet with but great Things pass'd between GOD and Me this Night He hath with unusual Power assured Me and spoken to my Heart I will never leave Thee nor forsake Thee And this She during Her Illness oft repeated And GOD did indeed remarkably Guard Her He kept Her from doubting of Her State She retain'd Her Assurance in Her greatest disorders She express'd Her desires to Die and be in Heaven and the breathings of Her Soul after GOD even then were such as discover'd the Pious bent of Her Heart Indeed the Power of Grace in Her Soul was convincingly evidenc'd in the heighth of Her Disease SHE had not Her great Work then to do She had indeed been very unfit for it But through Mercy 't was I trust dispatch'd long before O take Warning all you who leave the principal business of Life to an uncertain hereafter Little do you know but you may be surpriz'd by Death on a sudden or if not may be seiz'd by some such Distemper as though it may not remove you immediately may yet take away all Capacity of making your Peace with GOD or getting ready for another World Take warning I say and provide in Time and improve your Health and neglect not GOD least you are deserted and abandon'd by Him THE last Seene of our Dear Deceased Friends Life was dark and gloomy But the Clouds are now quite blown over the Issue was I doubt not glorious GOD was Her GOD still He was not asham'd to own Her nay helpt Her to own Him even the Day before She dy'd When She express'd Her Faith and Trust of Her being about to be remov'd out of a Troublesome World into Her Fathers House THERE She now is in that better Countrey on which Her Heart was so much set Let us therefore be Followers of Her thither and together with Her of all that numerous Company Who through Faith and Patience inherit the Promises AND GOD grant that we may Amen FINIS Books Printed for Iohn Lawrence at the Angel in the Poultrey Folio MR. Pools Annotations in Two Volumes The Works of the Reverend Mr. Stephen Charnock B. D. in Two Volumes The Life of the Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter with the History of the Times he lived in Written by Himself and Published by Mr. Sylvester Quarto Mr. Shower's Winter Meditations or a Sermon concerning Frost and Snow and Winds c. and the Wonders of God therein His Thanksgiving Sermon April the 16th 1696. Mr. Nathaniel Vincents Funeral Sermon Preached by Mr. N. Taylor Mr. Lorimer's Apology for the Ministers who Subscribed only unto the stating of the Truths and Errors in Mr. Williams Book in Answer to Mr. Trail's Letter to a Minister in the Countrey His Remarks on Mr.

Of Labouring for that which is not And constantly tending towards that which hath no other Being than in the Fancy and Imagination And so we must either live like Brutes and be continually expos'd to the smart Upbraidings and Reproaches of our own Minds without Relief Or else following our Reason must voluntarily befool our selves by Building Castles in the Air where there is no possibility of having any Footing Might He not well be asham'd to be call'd the GOD of those whom He held thus fasten'd in a fatal Circle whence they could never get loose We may therefore conclude if He Acts like Himself there must be an Heaven in Store and Reserve Again 3. UPON the Supposition foremention'd None would fare so ill as the Servants of GOD. Those who were really the best would fare the worst For 1. PIOVS Persons would have no reward for all their Pains Far be it indeed from such as we are to think of meriting any thing at the hands of GOD I abhor the thought and yet I am sure 't would be no credit to him who hath promis'd to be a rewarder of them that diligently seek him to let People serve him for nought There 's a great deal of Pain and Misery and Sorrow which many Holy Souls voluntarily undergo Their tender Consciences reproach and smite them for the smallest Neglect and Transgression and on that Account draw forth many a mournful sigh and groan The sense of their great weakness makes them walk in constant Fear Watchings and Fightings against the Assaults of Satan are their Daily Exercise Their Self-Denial is Galling and their severity to the Flesh painful Often are they groaning under their own Body of Sin and Death and Rivers of Tears also run down their eyes at the sight of the Transgressions of others whereby their GOD is dishonour'd And can all this come to nothing at last And there be no difference at long run between those who underwent so much for the Sake of GOD and those who liv'd in an open Estrangement from Him and Opposition to Him Would not this be shameful SHOULD any Plead That Holiness and Vertue is its own reward I 'le freely grant it in the General Insomuch that were we certain there were no Life after this it were more for our present Interest in the main to be vertuous than vicious unless where there should be apparent hazard of the Loss of Life or Estate or of any other insupportable Detriment which a vertuous course might have attending it But yet withal it is obvious that there are sundry Exercises of Vertue that are very difficult and painful in which the Holiest Souls are most strict and frequent which upon that Supposition would be needless and fruitless and therefore better forborn For such as these there would be no Reward Which would cast such a Reflection on the Blessed GOD as were never to be wip'd off But we may be assur'd 't is otherwise For He hath prepar'd for them a City Nay 2. UPON the Supposition foregoing The most Pious would be so far from gaining by the Service of GOD that they 'd plainly loose by it For 't is easie to be observ'd that a great part of their Lives is employ'd in painful endeavours after a meetness for Heaven Their great Aim and Scope is to purifie themselves as he is pure to whom they are devoted and in whom they hope to be for ever happy With great earnestness do they strive to improve both Ordinances and Providences to this purpose Early and Late are they tugging at their listless sluggish backward Hearts that they may get them into a more lively spiritual Heavenly Frame And many an Hour do they spend in endeavouring to mortifie a particular Sin which they find themselves most prone to which yet others it may be can hardly observe in them And can all this at last prove labour-in-vain shall they be never the better for all in the issue If so they had done much better to have spent their time and their pains in more agreeable pleasant and delightful Exercises like the rest of the World 'T was better they had deny'd themselves nothing that their hearts could crave which yet had not present visible damage and detriment attending it 't were better they had freely enjoy'd themselves and what came within their reach and not have so tired their Spirits or perplext their Minds or sower'd their Joys by any such needless Labour and Severity They lost all that Pleasure and Ease and Freedom and Satisfaction which others met with all that while that they were Grinding at the Mill as 't were and all to no purpose Let none say this is as nothing For though it be freely granted it would appear so upon a certain Prospect of a Future State which unspeakably over-ballances Yet had we no more to expect than what this Life could afford it would be very considerable and a Stress might be deservedly laid upon it For Common Sense would teach us to make the most of our all It was not without good Reason therefore that the Apostle declares That if in this Life only we have hope in Christ we are of all Men most miserable But this cannot be for he hath prepar'd for Them a City And which is more their future Advancement therein shall be the higher the more pains they took in His Service in this Life and the more they lost and endur'd for his Sake Again 4. UPON the foregoing Supposition GOD would either leave His most faithful Ones without any Thing to support them under their greatest present Troubles or He 'd support them with a Fallacy Holy Souls fetch their great Consolations from Heaven in every State The Thoughts of that refresh and chear them when their Sins and Sorrows make them weary support them under the greatest Disappointments and make them Boast and Triumph in their GOD in the midst of all their Afflictions This Thought often recurs we are not far from Home and then 't will be better Were it not for this their Spirits would often sink and their Hearts faint Nothing else in reality besides a Prospect of a Future State of Bliss can any thing tolerably support them The Thoughts of the utter unavoidableness of the Troubles they met with through the Imposition of a rigid Fate or of the common liableness of all Mankind thereto or of the likelihood of their ceasing in a little time upon their passing into a state of Silence and Darkness and Everlasting Oblivion would give little Relief IF this then prove a Fallacy he who pretends to be their GOD hath most miserably deceiv'd them And is not that a Matter of Shame But this need not be feared for he hath prepar'd for them a City Lastly WERE there not an Heaven prepared for Holy Souls hereafter A Special Relation to GOD would signifie just nothing Those big Phrases Their GOD and our GOD would in reality dwindle to meer Noise and Sound For what

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Boyse The Works of the Right Honourable Henry late Lord Delamere and Earl of Warrington consisting in Thirty Two Original Manuscripts under his Lordships own Hand Bishop Wilkins Discourses of the Gift of Prayer and Preaching the latter much inlarged by the Bishop of Norwich and Bishop Williams Mr. Samuel Slater's Earnest Call to Family Religion being the Substance of Eighteen Sermons Mr. Addy's Stenographia Or the Art of Short Writing compleated in a far more Compendious way then any yet Extant Cambridge Phrases by A. Robinson History of the Conquest of Florida Mr. William Scoffin's Help to true Spelling and Reading Or A very easie Method for the Teaching Children or elder Persons rightly to Spell and exactly to read Engglish Graaf de succo Pancreatico Or a Physical and Anatomical Treatise of the Nature and Office of the Pancreatick Juice A Preservative against Deism Shewing the great Advantage of Revelation above Reason in the Two Great Points Pardon of Sin and a Future State of Happiness With an Appendix in Answer to a Letter of A. W. against Revealed Religion in the Oracles of Reason by Mr. Nath. 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Oldfield who departed this Life Decemb. 31. 1696. His Sermon Preach'd to the Societies for Reformation of Manners Nov. 15. 1697. Mr. Hamond's Sermon at Mr. Steel's Funeral Mr. Aikin's English Grammar Or the English Tongue reduced to Grammatical Rules composed for the use of the English Schools Mr. John Mason's little Catechism with little Verse● and little Sayings for little Children Mr. Addy's Short-Hand Bible Twelves London-Dispensatory reduc'd to the practice of the London Physicians wherein are contained the Medicines both Galenical and Chymical that are now in use those out of use omitted and those in use and not in the Latin Copy here added By John Peachy of the Colledge of Physicians in London Mr. John Shower's Discourse of Tempting Christ. His Discourse of Family Religion in 3 Letters Mr. Dan. Burgess's Discourse of the Death Rest Resurrection and blessed Portion of the Saints His ●●an's whole Duty and God's wonderful Intreaty of him thereunto H●s Advice to Parents and Children Mr G●orge Hamond's and Mr. Matthew Barker's Discourses of Family Worship Written at the Request of the Uni●ed Ministers of London Misc●llanea Sacra Containing Scriptural Meditations Divi●e Breathings Occasional Reflections and Sacred P 〈…〉 S 〈…〉 nas Moor 's Mathematical Compendium The Third Edition FINIS 2 Cor. 12. 2. Gen. 15. 1. Exod. 3. 6 15. Matt. 22. 31 32. Luke 20. 38. 2 Cor. 12. 4. Joh. 14. 2. Verse 10. Luke 12. 32. 2 Pet. 1. 11 Gen. 23. 4. Gen. 47. 9. 1 Chron. 29. 15. Psal. 39. 12. Vers. 10. Gen. 49. 18. Job 19. 26 27. Psal. 16. 11 Psal. ●7 15. 2 Cor. 5. 2. 2 Cor. 4. 17. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Ps. 73. 25. 2 Cor. 5. 6 8. Rom. 7. 24 Joh. 15. 19 Heb. 11. 6. Heb. 4. 9. Rom. 2. 7. 1 Pet. 1. 4. Vers. 1. Rev. 21. 7. Heb. 9. 10. 2 Cor. 5. 5. 1 Cor. 15. 19. Rev. 14. 13.