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A47239	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 ... Thomas, Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.	Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.	1688 (1688)	Wing K280; ESTC R14039	19,003	38

of all those vanities and divertisements which most of her sex do usually admire her chief and in a manner sole recreation was to do good and to oblige and if we will be advis'd by one so wise to Salvation We are to seek for comfort and joy from God's ordinances and the converse of pious Christians and not to take the usual course of the World to drive away Melancholy by exposing our selves to temptations and this was really her practice insomuch that next to the Service of the Temple which she daily frequented There was no entertainment in the whole World so pleasing to her as the discourse of Heavenly things and those she spake of with such a Spiritual relish that at first hearing you might perceive she was in earnest that she really tasted that the Lord was good and felt all she spake Amidst all her pains and her sicknesses which were sharp and many who ever saw her shew any one symptom of Impatience So far was she from it that she laments when she reflects how apt we are to abuse prosperity Demands where our conformity is to the great Captain of our Salvation if we have no sufferings Professes that God by suffering our Conditions to be Uneasie by that gentle way invites us to higher satisfactions than are to be met with here and with a prostrate spirit acknowledges that God was most righteous in all that had befallen her and that there had been so much mercy mixt with his chastising that she had been but too happy Thus humble thus content thus thankful was this gracious Woman amidst her very afflictions Her Soul always rested on God's Paternal mercy and on all his exceeding great and precious promises as on a sure and stedfast Anchor which she knew would secure her in the most tempestuous Calamities To his blessed will she hourly offer'd up her own and knew it was as much her duty to suffer his fatherly inflictions as to obey his commands Her Charity made her sympathize with all in Misery and besides her private Alms wherein her left hand was not conscious to her right she was a common Patroness to the Poor and Needy and a common Physician to her sick Neighbours and would often with her own hands dress their most loathsome Sores and sometimes keep them in her Family and would give them both Diet and Lodging till they were cur'd and then Cloth them and send them home to give God thanks for their recovery and if they died her Charity accompany'd them sometimes to the very Grave and she took care even of their Burial She would by no means endure that by the care of plentifully providing for her Children the wants and necessities of any poor Christian should be overlook'd and desir'd it might be remembred that Alms and the Poors prayers will bring a greater blessing to them than Thousands a year Look abroad now in the World and see how rarely you shall meet with a Charity like that of this gracious Woman who next to her own flesh and Blood was tender of the Poor and thought an Alms as much due to to them as Portions to her Children To corporal Alms as often as she saw occasion she joyn'd spiritual and she had a singular talent in dispensing that alms to Souls she had a masculine Reason to perswade a steady Wisdom to advise a perspicuity both of thought and language to instruct a mildness that endear'd a reproof and could comfort the afflicted from her own manifold experience of the Divine Goodness and with so condoling a tenderness that she seem'd to translate their anguish on her self And happy was it for others that her Charity was so comprehensive for she often met with objects so deplorable that were to be reliev'd in all these capacities so that she was fain to become their Benefactress their Physician and their Divine altogether or if need were she bid them shew themselves to the Priest or else took care to send the Priest to them Thus was it visibly her constant endeavour to be in all respects merciful as her Father in Heaven is merciful She could bear long and most easily forgive and no one ever injur'd her but she would heap coals of fire on his head to melt him into a charitable temper and would often repay the injury with a kindness so surprizing that if the injurous person were not wholly obdurate and brutish must needs affect him But if any one did her the least good office none could be more grateful she would if possible return it a hundred-fold if she could not in kind she would at least do it in her prayers to God that out of his inexhaustible goodness he would reward him Her Soul seem'd to possess a continued serenity at peace with her self at peace with God and at peace with all the World her study was to give all their due and she was exactly sincere and faithful to all her obligations she kept her heart always with all diligence was watchful against all temptations and naturally considerate in all her actions her disposition was peaceful and inoffensive she lookt always pleas'd rather than chearful her converse was even and serious but yet easie and affable her Interpretations of what others did or said were always candid and charitable you should never see her indecently angry or out of humour never hear her give an ill character or pass a hard censure or speak an idle word but she opened her mouth in Wisdom and in her tongue was the Law of Kindness If you look on her in her several Relations in her Childhood her Father the Right Honourable the Earl of Dyzart being banish'd for his Loyalty she was under the breeding of the Excellent Lady her Mother to whom she was in all respects so dutiful a Child that she protested her Daughter had never in any one instance offended her By that time the Young Lady was about Eleven or Twelve Years old God was pleas'd to take her good Mother to himself and from that time to her Marriage this gracious Woman liv'd with a discretion so much above her years with so conspicuous a Vertue and so constant a Wariness that she always retain'd honour such an honour as never had the least More in it And to her honour be it spoken that in an Age when the generality of the Nation were like Children tost to and fro with every wind of Doctrine she still continued stedfast in the Communion of the Church of England and when the Priests and Service of God were driven into Corners she daily resorted though with great difficulty to the publick Prayers and was remarkably Charitable to all the suffering Royalists whom she visited and reliev'd and sed cloth'd and condold with a zeal like that which the Ancient Christians shew'd to the Primitive Martyrs The silenc'd and plundred and persecuted Clergy she thought worthy of double honour and did vow a certain Sum yearly out of her Income which she