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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56119	A sermon on the occasion of the death of the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Cutts containing an account of her most pious life and lamented death.	Provoste, John.	1698 (1698)	Wing P3878; ESTC R2910	29,829	45

live only to be warned and to take the warning to consider that we are determined to death by God's Decree and we should be fitted for it by our Holiness and so our Death like that of the Best may seem to be only a Debt of Nature the Payment whereof makes us Free and Easie and a sudden one which is to them a Favour may not be to us a Punishment I would not My Lord so much condole Your Calamity as congratulate Your Improvement of it I would not speak so much to Your Lordship upon the Loss because instead of Your being swallow'd up in St. Paul's Phrase with intemperate Grief I would have that swallow'd up the best way and sunk in the Advantage by the Blessing of him who said I will heal him I will lead him and will restore comforts to him and to his Mourners In the mean time I am to tell the World Your Loss which Your Lordship is too sensible of to want the being told of it Your self and my own Imperfections in the following Pages wherein the Excellent Lady has her self a Loss and as you were always Partners in the Goods and Evils of Life Your Lordship too suffers here not only by the Death but by the Description of it in this Vnworthy and Artless Discourse For all the Injuries whereof Pardon now it ask'd from Your Lordship and from that truly Pious Memory which now we Celebrate by My Lord Your Lordship 's Most Obedient and Most Humble Servant JOHN PROVOSTE A SERMON On the DEATH of the RIGHT HONOVRABLE ELIZABETH Lady CUTTS Psal 37.37 Mark the perfect Man and behold the upright for the end of that Man is Peace THis Psalm and the 73d speak more together in one continued Discourse than any other part of Scripture upon that great and lofty Subject The Justice of Providence in the Sufferings of the Righteous and the Goodness of it in the advantages of their better Condition which follows and Crowns their Sufferings The end is indeed a full satisfaction for all the hardships this a large reward to him who bears them this a decisive Answer to the Questions rising from them And so God's Providence will not suffer in our Thoughts when the Righteous do from his Hands the Goodness explains the Justice and the Event enlightens the Mystery that which is so bright spreads a Light over this which is so gloomy The Honourable the Pious and I had almost said the never too much lamented Person of whom every thing around us here does give us mournful notices for whom we now perform much more than a Ceremony of Mourning had Peace for her End and not a train of Sufferings to conduct her to it we alone now seem to suffer and more in the end of her Life than in the misfortunes of our own and O let all our Evils become the Sufferings of the Righteous when they are ours Indeed she was Righteous without them as if there had been no place for severer methods upon a Spirit so gentle in its Frame and so good in its Inclination and thus a Father does never use the Discipline of Force upon the ingenuous and willing Child where he cannot be too kind and where the kindness cannot be abused Give me leave to remember her who must not who cannot be forgotten and who is so much rather to be remembred now when we are performing that Worship to God which she made as much her pleasure as God made it her Duty And surely that always Devout and now Blessed Soul if I may so say would at this time hasten in all the swiftest Motions of a Spirit would come down presently to joyn in Worship with us were she not engaged already in another Communion with them who fall down before him that sits on the Throne and worship him who liveth for ever and ever Rev. 4.10.11 and cast their Crowns before the Throne saying Thou art worthy O Lord to receive Glory and Honour and Power I would set before you an Image of her or a part of that Image for it can only be a part at last where the Work is not skilful yet the Figure must be comely or it can have no relation to her and then it is such as should only please and charm not fright and disturb you So much I shall speak upon Conviction that whereas a Pagan might say he had built a Temple and offered a Sacrifice to Virtue a Christian may Declare that he thinks himself to erect a Statue or build a Monument to it if there were so far a Death of it among us as to want a Monument or if any thing I can do could deserve the being called its Statue The Integrity of the Speaker upon such occasions is asserted by the choice of the Subject where this surmounts the praise as high as it seems to be and still as it rises higher this appears much above it and again by the knowledge of those to whom we speak as you think it almost your misfortune that once you knew and perhaps too well and too much but not too long The Veracity is yet more secured by the knowledge of him that speaks as I had the honour to know from Childhood and now to have the large and delightful prospect before my Eyes of such a Glorious course of Goodness I could wish as much the recalling of her past Years as some do that of their own It has been always a part of my Caution to speak little seldom any thing of the Dead in Funeral Discourses and as they according to David Praise not the Lord so I have thought they were scarce to be praised themselves and we were rather to be silent upon those who as he at the same time says Go down into silence But still I distinguisht and it was always no less my Rule that Men eminent in Quality and more in good Actions were not to go out of the World without something like that splendor they appeared in there and that speaking then in Justice to them and for encouragement to others of the same exalted Rank and for Example to All was one part of the needful Decencies of their Funeral And this which was ever my Rule I think I have a Lawful and a great occasion for the Practice of I know the Disadvantages to which these Praises are liable in the present opinion of Mankind and therefore my first business shall be this to defend them whenever there is so much reason as I am sure now I have I shall consider these Three things in my Discourse 1. That we are to mark and behold the Perfect and Upright in this Sense when they die in the Lord we are to remember them in their Works which follow them 2. That we now have one Perfect and Upright to mark thus and to behold 3. That her End was Peace 1. That we are to Mark and Behold the Perfect and Upright in this Sense When they die we are to