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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35574	Hagio-mimesis The imitation of the saints : opened in some practical meditations upon the death of Mrs. Anne Browne, late wife of Mr. Peter Browne of Hammersmith / by Thomas Case ...	Case, Thomas, 1598-1682.	1666 (1666)	Wing C822; ESTC R37528	40,369	103

theirs as Gods That 's not Rebellion against Rulers and Superiours vvherein not the will so much of the Inferiour gives sin a Negative vote as the Conscience and Conscience rightly informed by the word of God Yoke-fellows Love ye one another souls Love one another to heaven Let not the flesh go away with all your time and strength and affections nor the elder serve the younger Live together as heirs of the grace of life that your prayers be not hindred 1 Pet. 3.7 3. Look upon her as a Mistris in her Family 3. A Governess She was an excellent Governess her government was o● a Scripture constitution It was made up of sweetness and gravity sweetness without levity or remisness gravity without bitterness and severity There was no severity in her discipline save what was in the Pattern she proposed to them her own Conversation Indeed she was severely good her government was made up of Intreaties rather then Commands or Repro●f● She knew not how to be angry unless it were against sin and even that she exprest rather in grief then in passion Her great Care was that her family might know God and Jesus Christ Joh. 17.3 whom to know his life eternal She was of a Joshuah-like resolution Jos 24.13 As for me and my house we will serve the Lord. She thought it not enough to go to heaven alone but laboured to carry as many as she could with her especially them of her own Family To that end she was very exact and constant in Family-duties Her exactness in family-duties sc Reading the Scripture Prayer Catechising as deeply sensible how gainfull God had made that Domestick duty to her own soul in the Family of her education I say being conscious what good she had got by being diligently instructed in the principles of Religion she was conscientious in the discharge of that duty towards those whom God had committed to her trust not only in a way of exercising their memories in a bare verbal repetition of words but according to her faculty which verily was not ordinary in her sex in a way of helping them to understand the sence and meaning and by impressing upon conscience what was imprinted in their memeries In the absence of her dear Husband she constantly performed the duty of prayer in her own person save only when she could call in the assistance of her own pious Pastour or other faithful Ministers whom the present Providence had cast into her neighbourhood all which her Christian obliging converse had so marvellously endeared that she had as many Chaplains as if she had bin one of the greatest Ladies in the Land A true Gospel-Sabbatarian she was and thought it no Judaism to keep the Christian Sabbath as an holy Rest rather envying her body that it should have six dayes to her souls one then sacrilegiously filching out of that precious one any parcells of time for the uses and purposes of the flesh truth is she counted every moment of Sabbath-time too good for any time but Sabbath-work unless it were vvhere divine indulgence had made allowance for vvorks of Mercy and Necessity In reference to both vvhich notvvithstanding she vvell knevv how to spiritualize even them also into Sabbath-exercises Further then these two she durst not exact any of her servants labour As knovving 1. That the Sabbath vvas the servants priviledge as vvell as her ovvn Thou and thy servant c. 2. That her Servants souls were as precious to God as her own and cost Jesus Christ as much blood to redeem Therefore she vvas careful that every one in her Family should not only attend the publick Ordinances but that they should improve the whole overplus of Sabbath time in the holy exercises of Religion And as God had given her an excellent faculty in taking Sermons so she made it her vvork constantly to repeat both the former and latter Sermon to her Family vvhich she did vvith such a judicious accurateness that the hearer could hardly miss in the repetition vvhat he had heard from the Pulpit at least not any head or material enlargment of the Sermon The other void spaces of the day she commended to her Family as Gods and their own time for divine uses calling upon them to redeem it accordingly You that are Governours of Families imitate this blessed Saint herein also The Sabbath is exceedingly fallen amongst us not in our Publike Assemblies streets only but even vvithin our private vvalls The spirit of Ignatius dyed with him 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let every one that loves the Lord sanctify the Lords-day Ignat. ep ad Magn. Hovv art thou fallen Thou Morning-Starr Thou Queen of days thou golden spot of the week Thou Map of Heaven Thou birth-day of immortality Hovv art thou fallen You that love the Lord Jesus and his Resurrection I charge you by all that right and interest you claim in either help to lift up the head of this glorious day of Jehovah for the love of God do not put avvay the Pillovv from under the head of this dying day as you vvould not be found guilty of the blood of Christ and of his Resurrection Christians stirr up your selves for the recovery of the life and honour of this Holy-day 4. As a Friend and Neighbour 4. As a Friend She vvas of a most sweet and obliging converse As many loved her as knew her as ambitious she vvas to do good offices to the poorest as others are to those that can requite them But that vvhich vvas eminent in her converse vvas her profitable improvement of it she was not one of those professors that with the holy could shew her self holy and with the prophane could shew her self prophane that could talk religiously in one company and vainely and frothily with others She was not one of them that could shape themselves into any form and garb of the present Company but she was gracious and uniform in every Company which providence cast her upon spending the time in Christian and profitable Communication alwayes either doing good or receiving good as opportunity served But if the Company were such as admitted neither her silence should argue her dissent and her withdrawment as far as might consist with civility should at once ease ●hem and her self of a burden Christians Oh that every one would herein become her followers Oh what a deal of pretious time is wasted in idle alk and foolish jestings which are not convenient how many precious hours are pent in vain and unprofitable complehents Yea in carnal mirth foolish talk●g and jesting which might be improved to spiritual soul-edifying conferences as if Christians had forgotten there were such a word in the Bible Let your speech be alwayes with gr●ce seasoned with salt Col. 4.6 or that other Redeem the time for the dayes are evil Eph. 5.1 15 16. The Lord make you wise to salvation I might easily enlarge in these her Relative excellencies but I must

There is not that part of the true Church of Christ under heaven upon which the hour of temptation is not in an eminent manner The sinners in Sion abound every where pray ye that the number of the mourners in Sion may abound more and more And ye that are the Lords Remembrancers behold you have your Commission keep not silence and give him no rest till he establish Isa 62.6 7. and till he m ke Jerusalem a praise in the Earth How willing is God to be overcome that bids his people wrestle How desirous is God to grant that commands his supplicants to take no denyal at his hands nor suffer him as it were to live a quiet day in Heaven till he gives Rest to his Church upon Earth Improve your Commission O ye Saints of God cry a loud spare not beg of Jesus Christ that King of Saints hat he would bow the heavens and come down or ever his Sp use die that he would take her up in his Arms wipe off dust from her face tears from her eyes and blood from her wounds Oh forget not Jerusalem lest your Right-hand forget her cunning plead hard for her lest your tongue cleave to the roof of your mouth Ps 137.5 6. Oh prefer Jerusalem above your chief joy 5. She was a woman of great Faith the life she lived in the flesh was a life of Faith In her natural life in all the publick calamities of the times and private afflictions upon her own person as she was a woman of much sorrow God having exercised her with sharp trials and afflictions in the married estate Frequent Abortions loss of Children and that which must needs follow a feeble distempered body c. I say in all these she lived by faith and was more then Conqueress through him that loved her All her afflictions were but the trials and triumph of her Faith Faith it was that which kept her Vessel so steddy in the midst of all the Waves and Billows which fell upon her in her passage that in them all she was observed by all the standers by to be of an even tranquil spirit not transported with joy in her better times nor dejected with sorrow in her worse but that which was said to be Queen Elizabeths Motto was really her temper and felicity Semper Eadem she was still the same In her spiritual life she lived much by Faith when she could not see she did believe and when in darkness and had no light Isa 50.10 she could trust in the name of the Lord and stay upon her God But in this did the excellency of her Faith consist she durst not believe without a promise nor the promise without the qualification in some good degree Faith without a promise she believed was not Faith but Fancy not believing but presuming This she believed and therefore never durst believe further then she had a word for it Hence she made the promises her dayly study Hear this all you that take up your salvation upon trust and swim down the stream of security not working out your salvation with fear and trembling but think it enough to hope well and to believe you do believe c. and what will ye do in the latter end When your Faith will prove but fancy and your hope but as the Spiders Webb wrought out of your own bowels and blown away with the least of temptation Take heed deceive not your selves with shadows instead of substances what good will it do you to go down to the Grave with a lie in your Right-hand one Grain of Faith well tryed is more worth then a pound of Faith taken up upon trust The sixth and last Grace which I shall hint to you though herein I do both her and you wrong is her Patience Truly her life and her death was nothing else but a Lecture of humility I told you before that her life from almost the first of her married estate was a life of suffering Not truly by reason of the least unsuitableness in the Conjugal relation nor meerly in regard of Abortion and loss of Children both which she bare with a gracious chearfulness in submission to her Heavenly Father but also in respect of an infirm Constitution which she carried about her insomuch that when the time of her dissolution came it appeared to her learned Physitians that her dying sickness was nothing else but a Complication of her diseases now come to the birth which had for near Twenty years before bin breeding and ripening in her tender body which though they did not seldom make a visible impression upon nature yet she did carry with so ingenuous a dissimulation that her nearest Relations could hardly discover any habitual distemper prevailing upon her but judg'd it only some accidental errour in nature easily capable of correction by prudent observation But at length those sparks which for many years lay smoaking and kindling within brake out into a flame and for near twenty weeks together by degrees prevailed upon the Walls of her feeble Tabernacle the anguish whereof though at times it was beyond expression full of bitterness and torment yet she sustained it with such an invincible sweetness of patience as did flatter her friends into a delusive hope that her sickness was not mortal untill the dissolution of nature convinced them of their too easie dulity She had a peculiar patience of her own Luk. 21.19 and that patience gave her the possession of her soul so that in her sharpest conflicts with pain and sickness though as an holy Minister said of himself she might possibly groan yet she did not grumble an impatient complaint was never heard from her lips but if asked how is it Her answer was the Holy Martyrs word mixt up of Patience and Faith It is well and it will be better It is well there was her patience and it will be better there was her Faith Through both which as in the Text She inherits the Promise Her Wisdome and Judgment I might easily enlarge the Catalogue of her Vertues she was of great wisdom and judgement not as a Woman only in managing all her affairs with Discretion but much more as a Christian woman She was not a light Sceptical professour nor one that took up her Religion upon trust or imitation She knew what she believed and having weighed her principles in the balance of the Sanctuary Joh. 4. and tried them by the touch-stone of the holy Scriptures which from her youth she had known she became rooted and grounded in the Faith 2 Tim. 3.15 and stood unmoveable and unshaken against all the blasts and storms of seduction Able not only to give an answer to every one that might rationally ask her a reason of the hope that was in her with meekness and fear 1 Pet. 3.15 but as a good proficient in Christs School to make an Apology for the truths she had learned from the Gospel of Jesus