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A91806	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honorable Anne, Countess of Pembroke, Dorset, and Montgomery who died March 22, 1675/6, and was interred April the 14th following at Appleby in Westmorland : with some remarks on the life of that eminent lady / by the Right Reverend Father in God, Edward, Lord Bishop of Carlile.	Rainbowe, Edward, 1608-1684.	1677 (1677)	Wing R142; ESTC R11144	35,773	69

some holy Ejaculations The Psalms for the day of the Moneth were never omitted to be read by her self or when under some indisposition read to her by her Attendants She much delighted in that holy Book it was her Companion and when persons or their affections cannot so well be known by themselves they may be guessed at by their Companions No greater Testimony of a Soul having her Conversation in Heaven then by being conversant in that Heavenly Book which as holy Athanasius hath well demonstrated is fitted for all persons suited for all occasions To receive comfort express sorrow to cast down or lift up the Soul with joy to praise God to expostulate with him to strengthen Faith to nourish Hope to stir up Holy affection to allay Passion to teach Patience to await Gods leisure So that indeed we may apply to this one parcel of Scripture what St. Paul makes the scope of the inspired Books that it is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in Righteousness that the man of God and not only so but that every Godly man or woman may be perfect throughly furnished to every good work It is scarce possible for any to be bad that frequently reads and meditates on this Book with desire to be good He that reads and digests shall be transformed into the image of it be acted by the spirit which breaths in it No doubt the Compilers of our Liturgy had all this in their eye when they made the reading a part of the Psalms of David so great a portion of the Morning and Evening Service Besides this which she did commonly read her self she usually heard a large portion of Scripture read every day as much as one of the Gospels read every week So that let her Body be fed never so sparingly her Soul was nourished with sound words the words of Faith which must needs give her a growth in Grace and make a sincere heart She took a particular delight in one Chapter which she used to repeat every Lord's day in the year and never failed to do it it was the eighth of the Romans which she had by heart in the best sense had laid it up in her heart and truly she could hardly find a better Cordial in any one Chapter in all the Holy Scriptures Which how comfortable how pertinent how useful it may be to any Christian in any Condition who desires with Meditation and Reflection to peruse it it may be sufficient to refer them to the serious reading of it and I doubt not but they will approve this Ladie 's Wisdom and Piety in her choice and frequent application of it to her self and she did so when Death look'd her in the face repeating it the first day when her Sickness which proved mortal seized on her As this might excite many Graces Faith Hope so especially what is the proper effect of those while we are on earth Patience and on Earth only these three Plants grow Faith Hope Patience though they send their fruit to Heaven yet their Root is only on Earth Faith is perfected by Vision Hope consummated by Fruition and at Heaven's gates the Patience of the Saints leaves them no more sufferings pain or grief all tears are wiped from their eyes at the first glimpse of the Beatifical Vision But I say in that selected Chapter Rom 8. the greatest Emphasis in it is to teach Patience either in inward afflictions of the Soul or outward pressures on the Body securing the Soul against the fear of damnation though under sinful infirmities and susteining the Body and outward man though under the Cross and greatest afflictions assuring that where Patience hath endured to the utmost when Patience shall have perfected its work it shall have its reward a Crown at the last I might inlarge by particular instances of her Patience in bearing and even Taking up submissively the Crosses which she met withall as it cannot be imagined but one who lived so long in a perverse and crooked generation must meet with many crosses in several kinds both in regard of Publick revolutions and Private cross-accidents Indeed she saw and felt great varieties and mixture of better and worse in both She spun out almost the measure of one whole Age and the Age wherein she lived might give her experience of the greatest misery and also felicity in the late revolutions in these three Nations that any one Age had ever seen Wherein the greatest Students and Searchers into the Methods of Providence could never extricate or clear the doubts which first arose from seeing these Nations from the top of earthly and heavenly blessings thrown into the abyss of misery and hellish slavery and then again by a powerful but gentle hand of Providence restored and raised up to its former prosperity and glory Herein this Lady as many less aged Had something like the fate of Noah saw the times before the Flood which Sin brought down weather'd out with Patience the time under the Floods of War and Misery Faith and Providence building her an Ark she lived to see the deluge of Blood and War dried up God in his never to be forgotten Mercy clearing the Skies and making the Sun and Starrs shine upon us again Those were times to exercise her Patience in a joynt-stock with others under publick Sufferings But she had and it may be seen that she well remembred then many private trials of her Patience not only those which in Common Providence happen to all mankind especially to the long lived who must needs see the Funerals of Parents and hear of the Deaths Misfortunes or Miscarriages of Husbands Children and Friends in all these there might be work for Patience although I acknowledg that true Christian-Patience looks upon such as Corrections and Chastisements and that they are more often the Indulgences of a Father then the severity of a Judge Corrections not Judgments And it is one of the safest ways for any to assure himself that he is the Child of God when he can willingly submit to his stroak as to the Correction of a Father Amongst the tryals of this kind I was able to observe one great work of Patience wrought out by this pious Lady When the astonishing news was brought her about three years since from the Isle of Garnsey of the strange and disasterous death of one of her dear Grand-Children with a Lady of great Piety and Honour and divers others by a terrible blast by Gunpowder the relation of which amazed the Court and all that heard of it although she first received the news with a sorrow supprest by a silence and wonder yet after when she heard that the Noble Lord her Grand-son who had also Lord Hatton been blown up out of his Chamber and by a wonderful Providence being thrown upon an high Wall that he and two of her Grand-children escaped without any harm she discovered a patient Submission to the Will of God in many

built by God eternal in the Heavens from a Tabernacle to a Temple And having mention'd her Courage I might shew that although it be a Virtue not so often to be found nor expected to be found in that Sex yet that she had it to an Heroick degree I will set before you but one instance which hath been brought to me by good Information It was in the late time of Rebellion and Usurpation when they threatned to level all degrees of men and women and had no respect to Honour either in Titles or in real Worth and Dignity but did studiously and affectedly seek to affront and pour contempt upon those chiefly who by their Birth and Place might challenge Honour as due to them as Propriety and Inheritance could Intitle any to whatsoever they possessed Having cut down Honour in its great Emblem the Royal Oak intending that in this our Druina no Loyal Oak should be left none to give shelter to any of the Royal Branches although Providence confuted them literally but as they could and by degrees to extirpate all the Loyal Nobility I say when they had dried up the Fountain of Honour in their King it was too great an eye-sore to behold the lustre of it in his Subjects to let any Noble but especially Loyal Blood run in the Streams that derived their Honour from that Fountain It was even then that this couragious Lady dared to own her self Loyal then when they had filled her Castle with Souldiers and those of fierce and phanatical spirits and none more fierce than they The Head of those Locusts like those in the Revelation 9. 7. armed and crowned for then every fanatical Head fancied himself to have or deserve a Crown They were the Saints and they must Reign Holiness you know gives great pretence to govern in Temporals as well as in Spirituals The Head of those who at that time oppressed this Noble Lady was one whom even his great Harrison Master himself looked upon as under a Dispensation more terribly phanatical than any in his Host terrible even to himself and his usurped Power This dreadful man quartered himself under the Roof of this Noble Lady had made suspitious inquiries or rather declared his presumptions of Her sending Assistance privately where he was conscious that Loyal Duty required and her affection might wish it if there had been means with safety to convey it but being not able to make proof of that he would needs know her opinion and dispute her out of her Loyalty at a time when she slept and lived but at his mercy giving her Alarms night and day when he listed If she had now shrunk and seem'd to yield to his Opinion she might pretend the Learned Philosopher's excuse who disputing with a great General and yielding up the truth of the Cause pleaded to those who upbraided him that he had done wisely to be confuted by him who had so many Legions such an Army to prove what he list near and at his Command But this undaunted Lady would not so easily yield but would be superiour in the Dispute having Truth and Loyalty on her side she would not betray them at the peril of her Life and Fortune but boldly asserted that she did love the King that she would live and dye in her Loyal thoughts to the King and so with her Courage dulled the edge of so sharp an Adversary that by God's merciful restraint he did her no harm at that time Diligence was a noted Virtue in her her active Soul filling up all the Gaps of Time with something useful or delightful to her self or others But to undertake to describe this and her other Virtues that is her Life were endless and not necessary none could describe it but her self that lived it And indeed by her great diligence she did describe much of it but if I should tell you how much possibly you would neither Credit me nor Commend so much as Admire her But she had such a desire to know review and reflect upon all the occurrences passages and actions of her Life as thinking it an especial mean to apply her heart to Wisdom by so numbring her days that none of them might be wholly lost That as St. Bernard advised her actions in passing might not pass away she did cast up the account of them and see what every day had brought forth she did set down what was of more remark or dictated and caused much of it to be set down in Writing in some certain seasons which she contrived to be vacant from Addresses judging her time to be better spent thus than in that ordinary Tattle which Custom ha's taught many of her Sex especially who have no business and know no greater duty of Life than to see and be seen in formal visits and insignificant parly As if it were a Game to play away Time in which all parties cheat each other yet never feel that they are Couzened of a Jewel most pretious and irreparable which he that wins from another is sure to lose himself Whatsoever kind of Censure others may pass of this exactness of Diary as too minute and trivial a Diligence I think we may thence charitatably conclude a serenity of Conscience clear at least from foul and presumptuous sins which durst bring all past actions of Life to a Test and Review Who of a thousand is there that can produce a thousand witnesses such is Conscience of the innocency of their Life that can or dare tell even themselves all that they have done or said and open their own Books to rise in Judgment for or against themselves Oh that we could do so This were praejudicium summi illius Judicii a fore-judging of our selves that we might not be judged at least not condemned with the world I confess I have been informed that after some reviews these were laid aside and some parts of these Diaries were summed into Annals As she had been a most Critical Searcher into her own Life so she had been a diligent Enquirer into the Lives Fortunes and Characters of many of her Ancestors for many years Some of them she hath left particularly described and the exact Annals of divers passages which were most remarkable in her own Life ever since it was wholly at her own disposal that is since the Death of her last Lord and Husband Philip Earl of Pembroke which was for the space of six or seven and twenty years But this I will say that as from this her great Diligence her Posterity may find contentment in reading these abstracts of Occurrences in her own Life being added to her Heroick Father's and Pious Mother's Lives dictated by her self so they may reap greater fruits of her Diligence in finding the Honours Descents Pedigrees Estates and the Titles and Claims of their Progenitors to them comprized Historically and Methodically in three Volumes of the larged size and each of them three or four times fairly written over which

Christian expressions which soon after I did receive from herself and several times after when she was pleased to renew the remembrance of it with much admiration and acknowledgment of the secret wayes of Gods Judgements and Mercies on which she could inlarge with many heavenly expressions But now Patience through all these experiences began to draw its work to perfection which it never doth except it dye with them whom it hath supported in Life A little before Her death Patience and Meekness and low thoughts of Her self which had been Her practice were now Her Argument Discoursing frequently with one of her nearest Attendants and seeing her and others passionatly concern'd and busie about her she willed them not to take so much pains for her who deserved less expostulating why any her self especially should at any time be angry why any of these outward things should trouble her who deserved so little and had been blessed with so much By which it might appear that she had brought into subjection all great thoughts she had cast down imaginations every high thing bringing into Captivity every high thought and submitting the World and her Soul to the Obedience of Christ her passions were mortified and dead before her So that for three or four dayes of her last sickness for she indured no more she lay as if she indured nothing she called for her Psalms which she could not now as she usually had done read her self the greatest Symptome of her extremity she caused them to be read unto her But that Cordial of which I have spoken kept in Rom. 8. and in her heart this her Memory held to the last this she soon repeated No doubt to secure her Soul against all fear of Condemnation being now wholly Christs having served him in the spirit of her mind and not loved to walk after the Flesh having as often as she affectionatly pronounced the words of this Chapter called in the Testimony of the Spirit to bear her witness that she desired to be delivered from this Bondage of Corruption into the glorious liberty of the Children of God and so to strengthen her Faith and Hope by other comfortable Arguments contein'd in the rest of that Chapter being the last words of Continuance which this dying Lady spoke The rest of the time as if it had been spent in Ruminating Digesting and speaking inwardly to her Soul what she had utter'd with broken words she lay quiet and without much sign of any Perturbation after a while in a gentle breath scarce perceptible she breathed out that Soul which God had breathed into her rendring it even to that God which gave it So breathed her last and quietly slept not to be awakened again but by the Archangel's Trumpet when it shall call her to the Resurrection of the Just Thus fell at last this goodly Building Thus died this great wise Woman who while she lived was the Honour of her Sex and Age fitter for an History than a Sermon Who having well considered that her last Remove how soon she knew not must be to the House of Death she built her own Apartment there the Tomb before your eyes against this day on which we are all now here met to give her Reliques Livery and Seizin quiet possession And while her Dust lies silent in that Chamber of Death the Monuments which she had built in the Hearts of all that knew her shall speak loud in the ears of a profligate Generation and tell that in this general Corruption lapsed times decay and downfal of Vertue The thrice Illustrious Anne Countess of Pembroke Dorset and Montgomery stood immovable in her Integrity of Manners Vertue and Religion was a well built Temple for Wisdom and all her train of Vertues to reside in is now removed and gone to inhabit a Building of God an House not made with Hands eternal in the Heavens To which blessed Mansions let us all endeavour to follow her by treading in the steps of her Faith Vertue and Patience That having fought the good Fight finished our Course and kept the Faith we may receive the Crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give at that day to all that love his appearing Now unto the King Eternal Immortal the only wise God be Honour and Glory for ever and ever Amen THE END