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A47237	A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Margaret Mainard, at Little Easton in Essex, on the 30th of June, 1682 by Tho. Ken ...	Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.	1682 (1682)	Wing K279; ESTC R14084	19,008	44

tenderness of His compassion he sent her as preparatives of her last conflict and as earnests of Heaven whither he intended the day following to translate her How she behav'd her self in her sickness I cannot better express than by saying that she pray'd continually and when the Prayers of the Church were read by her or when the hour of her own private Prayer came though she was not able to stand or to help her self she would yet be plac't on her Knees and when her Knees were no longer able to support her she would be put into the humblest posture she could possibly endure not being satisfied unless she gave God his entire oblation and glorify'd him in her body as well as in her spirit which were both God's own by purchase here and were both to be united in bliss hereafter On Whit-sunday she received her viaticum the most holy Body and Bloud of her Saviour and had received it again had not her death surpris'd us yet in the strength of that immortal food she was enabled to go out her journy and seem'd to have had a new transfusion of Grace from it insomuch that though her Limbs were all convulst her Pains great and without intermission her strength quite exhausted and her Head disturbed with a perpetual drousiness yet above and beyond all seeming possibility she would use force to her self to keep her self waking to offer to God her customary Sacrifice to the full to recollect her thoughts and to lodge them in Heaven where her Heart and her Treasure was as if she had already taken possession of her mansion there or as if she was teaching her Soul to act independently from the Body and practising before-hand the state of separation into which having receiv'd absolution she in a short time happily lancht for all the bands of Union being untied her Soul was set at liberty and on the wings of Angels took a direct and vigorous flight to its native Country Heaven from whence it first flew down There then we must leave her in the bosom of her heavenly Bridegroom where how radiant her Crown is how ecstatick her Joy how high exalted she is in degrees of glory is impossible to be described for neither eye hath seen nor ear heard nor has it enter'd into the heart of man to be conceiv'd the good things which God hath prepared for those that love him of all which she is now partaker We have nothing then to doe but to congratulate this Gracious Woman her eternal and unchangeable honour and as she always and in all things gave God the Glory here so that his praise was continually in her mouth for all the multitude of his Mercies and of his loving-Kindnesses towards her and is now praising him in Heaven Let us also offer up a Sacrifice of Praise for her great example her light has long shin'd before us we have seen her good works Let us therefore glorifie the father of Lights at whose beams her Soul was first lighted Blessed then for ever be the infinite goodness of God who was so liberal of his Graces to this humble Saint who made her so lively a picture of his own perfections so gracious and so honourable blessed be his merey for indulging her to us so long for taking her in his good time to himself and for that happiness she has now in Heaven To God be the glory of all that honour her graciousness did here acquire for to him onely it is due let therefore his most holy name have all the praise To our Thanksgiving let us add our Prayers also that God would vouchsafe us all his holy Spirit so to assist and sanctify and guide us that every one of our Souls may be gracious like hers that our life may be like hers our latter end like hers and our portion in Heaven like hers which God of his infinite mercy grant for the sake of his most belov'd Son To whom with the Father and the blessed Spirit be all honour and glory adoration and obedience now and for ever Amen THE END Matt. 12. 24. Isa. 53. 3. Luke 7. 16 4 22. Mark 7. 16. Iohn 6 15 18 38. Luke 23. 47. 1 Pet. 2. 17 18. 1 Tim. 6. 2. Rom. 13. 1. 2 Pet. 1. 4. Prov. 3. 35. Luke 1. 52. 1 Thess. 4. 4. 1 Sam. 2. 30. Heb. 1. 14. 1 Cor. 3. 16. Lev. 19. 30. Gal. 5. 22. Prov. 10. 7. Psa. 116. 15. Psa. 112. 6. Prov. 31. 28 31. Luke 8. 3. Matt. 27. 55. Luke 23. 27. Matt. 28. 5. Matt. 26. 13. Psa. 45. 13. 1 Pet. 3. 3. Iob 31. 1. Matt. 5. 28. Cant. 4. 16 Prov. 31. 30. Prov. 11. 22. Prov. 12. 4. 1 Cor. 11. 5. Prov. 31. 10. Prov. 31. 29. Ier. 16. 4. Iohn 11. 35. 1. Thess 4. 13. 1 James 27. 1 Pet. 3. 15. Prov. 4. 18. Prov. 31. 26. 1 Cor. 7. 32. Prov. 19. 14. Luke 10. 41 42. Eph. 6. 9. Exod. 34. 29. 1 Cor. 6. 20. Luke 16. 22. 1 Cor. 2. 9.

up of no other than sins of Infirmity and yet even for them she had as deep an Humiliation and as Penitential a Sorrow as high a sense of the Divine forgiveness and lov'd as much as if she had had Much to be forgiven So that after a life of above Forty Years Nine of which were spent in the Court bating her involuntary failings which are unavoidable and for which allowances are made in the Covenant of Grace she kept her self unspoted from the World and if it may be affirmed of any I dare venture to affirm it of this gracious Woman that by the peculiar favour of Heaven she past from the Font unsullied to her Grave Her understanding was admirable and she daily improv'd it by reading in which she employ'd most of her time and the Books she chose were only serious or devout and her memory was faithfull to retain what she read She took not up her Religion on an implicite faith or from education only but from a well-studied choice directed by God's holy Spirit whose guidance she daily invok'd and when once she had made that choice she was immoveable as a rock and so well satisfi'd in the Catholick faith profest in the Church of England that I make no doubt but that she always liv'd not only with the strictness of a Primitive Saint but with the resolution also of a Martyr It was strange to hear how strongly she would argue how clearly she understood the force of a Consequence and how ready at all times she was to give a reason of the hope that was in her with meekness and fear Her Letters which were found in her Cabinet not to be deliver'd till after her death and very many others in the hands of her Relations sufficiently shew how good and how great she was In them this humble Saint before she was aware has her self made an exact impression of her own Graciousness They are pen'd in so proper and unaffected a Style and animated throughout with so divine a Spirit with such ardours of Devotion and Charity as might have become a Proba a Monica or the most eminent of her Sex Insomuch that her very absence was the more supportable to her friends in regard she compensated the want of her presence by writing and sent them a blessing by every return I cannot tell what one help she neglected to secure her perseverance and to heighten her graces that she might shine more and more to a perfect day Her Oratory was the place where she principally resided and where she was most at home and her chief employment was Prayer and Praise Out of several Authours she for her own use transcrib'd many excellent Forms the very choice of which does argue a most experienc'd Piety she had Devotions suited to all the primitive hours of Prayer which she us'd as far as her bodily Infirmities and necessary Avocations would permit and with David Prais'd God seven times a day or supply'd the want of those solemn hours by a kind of perpetuity of Ejaculations which she had ready to answer all occasions and to fill up all vacant intervals and if she happened to wake in the Night of proper Prayers even for mid-night she was never unprovided Thus did this gracious Soul having been enkindled by fire from Heaven in her Baptism liv'd a continual Sacrifice and kept the fire always burning always in ascension always aspiring towards Heaven from whence it fell Besides her own private Prayers she Morning and Evening offer'd up to God the publick Offices and when she was not able to go to the house of Prayer she had it read to her in her Chamber To Prayers she added Fasting till her weakness had made it impossible to her constitution and yet even then on days of Abstinence she made amends for the Omission by other supplemental Mortifications Her Devotions she enlarg'd on the Fasts and Festivals of the Church but especially on the Lord's days dividing the hours between the Church and her Closet She never fail'd on all opportunities to approach the holy Altar came with a Spiritual hunger and thirst to that heavenly Feast and Communicated with a lively with a Crucifying but yet endearing Remembrance of her Crucifi'd Saviour The Sermons she heard when she came home she recollected and wrote down out of her memory abstracts of them all which are in a great number among her Papers that she might be not only a hearer of the Word but a doer also The Holy Scripture she attentively read and on what she read she did devoutly meditate and did by Meditation appropriate to her self it was her Soul's daily Bread it was her delight and her Counsellour and like the most blessed Virgin Mother she kept all things she read and ponder'd them in her heart Who is there can say they ever saw her idle no she had always affairs to transact with Heaven she was all her life long numbring her days and applying her heart to wisedom or to describe her with her own Pen she was making it her business to fit her self for her change knowing the moment of it to be uncertain and having no assurance that her warning would be great Oh happy Soul that was thus wise in a timely consideration of that which of all things in the World is of greatest importance to us to be consider'd namely our Latter end You may easily conclude that a Saint who was always thus conversant with her Grave and had heaven always in her view must have little or no value for things below as indeed she had not she did not only conquer the World but she triumph'd over it had a noble contempt of Secular greatness liv'd several years in the very Court with the abstraction of a Recluse and was so far from being solicitous for Riches for her self or her Children that to use her own words she look'd on them as dangerous things which did only clog and press drown our souls to this earth and judg'd a Competency to be certainly the best All the temporal blessings the divine Goodness was pleas'd to vouchsafe her she receiv'd with an overflowing thankfulness yet her affections were so disengag'd her temperance and moderation so habitual that she did rather use than injoy them and was always ready to restore them to the same gracious hand that gave them but no one can express her thoughts so pathetically as her own self O says that blessed Saint since God gives us all let us not be sorrowfull though we are to part with all the Kingdom of Heaven is a prise that is worth striving for though it costs us dear Alas what is there in this World that lincks our hearts so close to it and elsewhere she affirms that All blessings are given on this condition that either they must be taken from us or we from them if then we lose any thing which we esteem a blessing we are to give God the glory and to resign it