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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66118	A sermon preach'd at the funeral of ... Lady Mary, daughter to Ferdinando, late Earl of Huntingdon, and wife to William Jolife of Caverswell-castle in the county of Stafford, Esq. ... Decemb. xii, 1678 by Samuel Willes ...	Willes, Samuel, 1611-1684.	1679 (1679)	Wing W2305; ESTC R20634	16,458	38

as knowing that Rom. 5. 3. thereby Grace is promoted and our Glory enhanced All the Sufferings which the most Afflicted Man can undergo in this Life are not to be mention'd in comparison with the Joys and Glories of the Life to come which St. Paul has exprest in words of strange emphasis and signification 2 Cor. 4. 17. For our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory But these things cannot be understood till they are enjoyed Even this Excellent Lady whose Funerals have given occasion to this Discourse in her highest and most ravishing Meditations of Heaven could but conjecture only and that very imperfectly what God hath prepared for her and for all those that love him But she understood and felt so much as served to engage and animate her in all the Exercises of holy Living And she never thought those Conditions hard which God requires to make Col. 1. 12. us meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light And this I shall endeavour to make appear in the following accounts of her which I have collected from the happy opportunities I have had for many Years to make observation of her holy Life and from some Memorials which those who best knew her have communicated to me And if any can be so invidious as to think the Character I shall give can exceed the Subject I shall say nothing but that of the admirable Pliny That those that neglect the Lib. 3. Epist 21. doing Praise-worthy things look upon all Commendation to Flattery Nor shall I fear any Misconstructions it being an excellent service to Vertue and Piety when those Persons who have been the greatest Examples of it are commended to Imitation For an Hundred Sermons and Advices of Religion are not so persuasive as a single Example especially so Illustrious an one as this most incomparable Person was She was Born within few miles of this Place being the Fifth Daughter of her great and Vertuous Parents of whose Blood and Descent it is not my design to give any Account Nor can it be needful to any that have the least acquaintance with the History or Heraldry of the Kingdom She was educated under the Care Precepts and Examples of her Excellent Mother And her great and capacious Soul received and improved those happy Advantages to such a Degree that besides other Qualifications proper to a Person of her Age Sex and Quality she had very early attained to great measures of Prudence and of grave and wise Conduct and in the Prophets words The Child was an Hundred Years 1 Isa 65. 20. old And this was no defect of Wit or Spirit Her composedness of Mind proceeded not from Phlegm Nor was Dulness excused and concealed under the name of Gravity She understood well and in its proper season could entertain her self and others with all the innocent Ingenuities and sprightliness of Conversation But her great Soul aspired to more suitable Entertainments to things Solid Improving and Rational She had then so little of the Levity Heats and Indiscretions common in that time of Life that she became Example to her Sex even in her very young Years and had thereby the mighty advantages of setting out at first in a right Course gaining habits of Vertue and exalting her Mind with the noblest Images and Rules of it To the gaining these Attainments she had the assistance of a quick and sharp Understanding and deep Apprehension with a Judgment so descerning as happily determined her the right Way when she was at any time to conclude what was True or False Good or Evil. For having submitted her innocent and unprejudiced Soul to the conduct of Vertue and continually begging of Almighty God the Illumination and Guidance of the Holy Spirit she was by this means preserved from those Errors into which Pride and Confidence have seduced many others Nor was it an inconsiderable Safeguard that she always had upon her Spirit so great a sense of Honour By which I mean not any immoderate remembrance of her noble Extraction nor any insolent or haughty Behaviour towards others for none could be more Humble and Obliging but I mean a continual regard to things naturally Great and Honourable a Circumspection to avoid all that is base and vile and unsuitable to the dignity of Nature and the principles of Vertue and to that conditon of Men from whom the Laws and Rules of Demeanour are expected Her Passions and Affections as is usual in the most elevated Souls were great and quick but under such admirable restraint and command that one would have thought it had been Constitution in her and not Discipline And that she had been the Mistress of her Passions by the benevolence of Nature and not by Care and Labour But this latter was manifest For she was far from being insensible And as she understood as well as any all the Offices of Friendship so would her generous Mind resent them She had none of that Meanness in her to study Diminutions of any Act of Kindness or to suspect a Design in it but magnify'd it to others and to her self too She readily supposed every thing that could greaten the Testimonies of Friendship to her and her Recompences always bore proportion to this Generosity She was always jealous her Returns had not been sufficient and that she had come short of the just performances of a Friend But in case of any neglect or failure towards her of any unkindness or disservice in what measure soever she might apprehend it all her Resentments were sealed up Not that she kept any black Registers of Injuries or Memento's against an opportunity of Retaliation But she consider'd all that could lessen the Offence and where it could not be defended she made sure to forgive it And if any exprest a concernment that she was Injured she labour'd to appease them by alleging all imaginable Excuses and Extenuations of the Offender's Fault Not esteeming any interest of her own worthy the passion of a Friend's Vindication She bore so perfect a hatred to all Vice and Immorality that the least approaches towards it in any Person received from her the reprehension of a Blush or a Frown of if she judg'd it expedient a more direct and open Confutation But she had few occasions to exercise this part of her Vertue For her presence was awful and 't is a Torment to vain and extravagant Persons to be under the Limitation and Confinement which Vertuous Company puts upon them It is possible nevertheless that in many Persons far inferiour to her in Goodness some actions and behaviours of a resembling Nature may be observed But then they are commonly but the Ostentations of a counterfeit Vertue little devices and ambushes to get Fame and Commendation In her they were grown to Custom So Habitual and Familiar that she never expected any Observation ought to be made of them To all