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A66656	Eurēka, Eurēka the virtuous woman found, her loss bewailed, and character examined in a sermon preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678, at the funeral of ... Mary, countess dowager of Warwick, the most illustrious pattern of a sincere piety, and solid goodness his age hath produced : with so large additions as may be stiled the life of that noble lady : to which are annexed some of her ladyships pious and useful meditations / by Anthony Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Warwick, Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. Occasional meditations upon sundry subjects.	1678 (1678)	Wing W301; ESTC R233189	74,039	235

him his own fault and hear him presently say As the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely dye This discovers to me my own iniquity who am many times ready with David to condemn my own actions in an other person and to be a severe censurer of the faults of others but to pass a very slight one upon my own and can easily discern the mote in my brothers eye but cannot perceive the beam that is in my own eye O Lord I beseech thee when I would censure make me to begin at home and to judge my self remembring that I have most reason to do so for I can see in my brother but a a life full of sin but I can see in my self an heart full of sin let me therefore in lowliness of mind esteem others better than my self and not judge another but judge my self that I may not be judged of the Lord. REFLECT VII Jos 23.15 But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. LOrd when I read of thy servant Joshuah before his death reckoning up all the great engagements that the Children of Israel had to serve thee to provoke them to renew their Covenant with thee and to keep close to thy service and hear him taking his most happy resolution that whatever they did He and his house would serve the Lord. How desirous O Lord am I to follow this holy man's Example and to resolve that whatever the rest of the World doth I and my Family will serve the Lord let me not think it enough to serve thee my own self but make me to do as thou saidst thou knewst thy servant Abraham would to command my Children and my Houshold after me that they may keep thy Commandments to do Judgement and Justice And as holy David did let me say He that walketh uprightly he shall serve me mine eye shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight that it may be said of me as it was of Cornelius That I fear God and all my house REFLECT VIII Luke 16.25 And Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented LOrd when I read this sad answer of Abraham to the Rich-mans request Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things How sad a remembrance do I believe this must needs be to him to consider his former prosperity and to think that he was cleathed in Purple and sine Linnen and sared sumptuously every day and now wanted a drop of water to cool his tongue The remembrance of his former prosperity was now but an aggravation of his misery For what good did it do him to consider that in his life time he had it may be a great Retinue and many to wait upon him when in Hell his Attendance were only Divels and damned Spirits O Lord I beseech thee therefore let it never be said to me as it was to this miserable great one thou hast in thy life time had thy good things thou hast had thy consolation O Lord I beseech thee give me not my Portion in this Life nor let me have a short Heaven here upon Earth and an eternal Hell hereafter Let me not be satisfied with the blessings of thy Foot-stool without those of thy Throne nor with the fatness of the Earth without the dew of Heaven Let me not say to gold thou art my hope or to the fine gold thou art my confidence Let me not count these lower things my good things because these may stand with Reprobation and a Dives may have them and go to Hell But let me account those things my good things which cannot stand with Reprobation O visit me with the favour of thy chosen O let me not so much covet to be cloathed with purple and fine linnen as to be like the kings daughter all glorious within and be cloathed with the Righteousness of Christ and help me to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and to make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof REFLECT IX Mark 8.36 VVhat shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul LOrd when I read these words and see as it were my blessed Saviour putting the whole world into one Scale of a Ballance and the Soul of a poor Creature into the other and the Soul out-weighing all the World How really doth this convince me that whosoever shall exchange his immortal Soul to gain the whole World would make a sad bargain O Lord I beseech thee therefore let me not sell the Devil mine for a little scrap of it but remembering the preciousness of it by the price it cost For we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ Therefore if the Devil should come to me as he did once to my Saviour and shew me all the Kingdoms of the World and all the glories of them and say all these will I give thee for thy soul I may say to him Get thee behind me Satan I 'll never make such a fools bargain REFLECT X. 1 Sam. 30.6 And David encouraged himself in the Lord his God LOrd when I read this Chapter and consider the sad condition of David who when he returned found Ziglag burnt and his two Wives carried Captives by the Amalekites and the people that were with him talking of stoning him that he was in so sad an out-side condition that he was sorely distressed yet the Text saith that David even then encouraged himself in the Lord his God O Lord how doth this make me cry out and say blessed are the people which are in such a case yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord yea blessed are they who in their greatest tryals and distresses can encourage themselves in God that can trust in God at all times Lord those that know thy name will put their trust in thee and thou wilt keep them in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because they trust in thee O Lord I beseech thee let this make me follow holy David's Example in all my distresses to encourage my self in thee knowing it is better to put confidence in God than to put confidence in Princes REFLECT XI Gen. 22.9 Abraham bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood V. 12. Lay not thy hand upon the lad neither do thou any thing unto him LOrd when I read with what ready obedience faithful Abraham complyed with that command which not only ran cross to his natural affection but eemingly would disappoint the Promise he so long waited for and at length received with so much joy and satisfaction that he named his Son Isaac Laughter as a Witness and Memorial of it And also how when he had stretched out his hand

this our noble Mary or devoted themselves more unreservedly to God's love and fear and service learning to be good in very good earnest and to encrease and grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2. To promote this like the wise man in the Gospel Mat. 7.24 She dug deep to lay her foundations on a rock She made a strict scrutiny into the state of her Soul and weighed the reasons of her choice in the balance of the Sanctuary And with the other Builder in the Gospel sate down and considered with her self what it might cost to finish her spiritual edifice and whether she were furnished to defray that charge And also whether the grounds of her hope were firm and such as would not abuse and shame her and her evidences for Heaven such as would bear the Test and Scripture would approve And this she drew up at large with her own hand judiciously soberly modestly humbly and about twenty years since did me the honour with greatest secrecy to read it to me and obliged me with all freedom and faithfulness to give her my judgment of it which I could not but do with much approbation And this I doubt not remains amongst her many excellent Papers Having thus put her hand to the plough she looked not back but minded Religion as her business indeed and never gave suspicion of trifling in so serious a work 3. Therefore for her practice of it it was her great design to walk worthy of God in all well-pleasing to adorn her professed subjection to the Gospel by a conversation becoming it and to shew forth his virtues and praises who had called her to his marvellous Light First then she was circumspectly careful to abstain from all appearance of evil and in all doubtful cases 't was her rule to take the furest side for she would say I am sure 't will do me no hurt to let them alone Though therefore none were further from censuring others or usurping judgment over their liberties yet for her self she would never allow her self the addition of artificial handsomness used neither paint nor patch and was pleased with a saying of one of her spiritual Friends upon the reading the Book which apologizes for it O Lord I thank thee that thou gavest me not wit enough to write such a Book unless withal thou hadst given me Grace enough not to write it Neither would she play at any Games because beside many other inconveniences she judged them great wasters of precious time of which she was always very thrifty And though she was known to be a woman of good understanding yet were there three things which were too hard for her and she would confess she could not comprehend them First How those who professed to believe an Eternal Estate and it's dependance upon the short inch of time could complain of times lying as a dead commodity on their hands which they were troubled how to drive away Secondly how Christians who would seem devout at Church could laugh at others for being serious out on 't and burlesque the very Bible and turn Religion into Ridicule Thirdly How knowing men could take care of souls and seldom come amongst them never look after them And though in the forenamed particulars she was content only to give example of forbearance yet from the Play-house since the Stage hath taken so great liberty she would openly dehort her Friends with greatest earnestness She very many years since began to keep a Diary and consulted two whom she used to call her Soul-Friends and ever esteemed such her best Friends concerning the best manner of performing it This at first she used to perform every Evening but finding that inconvenient by reason of her Lords long illness which gave her many inevitable diversions and interruptions at that season she changed it into the quiet silent morning always rising early And therein amongst other things recorded the dayly frame of her own heart towards God his signal providences to her self and sometimes towards others his gracious manifestations to her Soul returns of prayer temptations resisted or prevailing or whatever might be useful for caution or encouragement afford her matter of thankfulness or humiliation And by this means she had arrived at such experience that she could conclude at least make strong conjectures of the events of things she spread before the Lord in prayer by the frame of her own heart in the performance of it as I could instance in particulars if it were convenient She used to call Prayer Hearts-ease as she often found it and though her modesty was such and she was so far from a vain affected ostentation of her gifts I cannot name one person with whom she prayed yet can I say she was as well mighty and fervent in prayer as constant and abundant in it for she sometimes using her voice hath been over-heard and her own Lord knowing her hours of prayer once conveyed a grave Minister into a secret place within hearing whom if I should name I suppose would not be denyed to be a competent Judge who much admired her humble fervency for she praying prayed and when she used not an audible voice her sighs and groans would eccho from her Closet at good distance And the very day before she died she was shut up above an hour which she spent in fervent private prayer notwithstanding her indisposition and indeed prayer was her very element in which she lived and actually died and 't was as the vital breath of her Soul and the wing that wafted it immediately to Heaven But if she exceeded her self in any thing as much as she excelled others in most things 't was in meditation this was her Master-piece for she usually walked two hours dayly in the morning to meditate alone in which divine art she was an accomplished Mistress both in set and occasional in the first chusing some select subject which she would press upon her heart with intensest thoughts till she had drawn out all its juice and nourishment and for the second like a spiritual Bee she would suck Honey from all occurrences whole Volumes of which she hath left behind her After this consecrating of the day with reading Scriptures Lectione assidua meditatione diuturna pectus suum Bibliothecam secerat Christi unde hic fervor aisi ex amere Dei unde legis Christi indefessa meditatio nisi ex defiderio ejus qui legem dedit prayer and meditation a short dressing time and ordering her domestick Affairs or reading some good Book spent the remainder of the morning till Chappel-prayers from which she was never absent and at which she was ever reverend and a devout example to her whole Family She was a strict observer of the Lords-day which is truly called the Hedge and Fence of Religion and though some please themselves to call this Judaizing to excuse the liberties they indulge themselves I am sure our Church

well to be angry even unto death O Lord how doth this shew me the madness of this passion of anger and discontent which doth for the present so far distract us that we are ready to justifie a fault in stead of begging pardon for it O Lord I do therefore most humbly beseech thee to inable me to be slow to anger remembring that thou hast told me that he that is slow to anger is better than the mighty and he that governs his Sipirit than he that takes a City and he that hath no rule over his spirit is as a City that hath no wall O bring all my passions into subjection to my reason and my reason to my Religion Let me not fret my self in any wise to do evil nor to be angry and sin in my Anger but give me a meek quiet contented spirit which is in thy sight of great value Let me learn of thee to be meek and lowly that I may find rest unto my soul REFLECT III. Mark 9.5 And Peter answered and said to Jesus master it is good for us to be here LOrd when I peruse these words of Peter's that it is good to be here this makes me reflect upon my self in relation to this present World who am often times when I am delighted with any thing here below which doth please my sensual appetite ready to say 't is good to be here But O Lord I beseech thee do thou then say to me up and be going for here is not your rest Look beyond things temporal to those which are eternal these worldly pleasures dye in the birth and therefore are not worthy to come into the Bill of Mortality make me to consider these things cannot satisfie me for a moment much less for eternity and that though the world seems to kiss me 't is but to stab me though it makes me sport 't is but to put out my eyes it promises much but performs nothing and therefore let me not say 't is good to be here but let me seek after that city that hath foundations whose maker and builder is God after that better country that is an heavenly REFLECT IV. John 4.28 The woman left her waterpot LOrd when I read that after thou wert pleased to instruct the Samaritan woman that thou wert the Christ the Saviour of the world she presently left her water-pot and went into the City to inform others that they also might come and be blessed with a sight of him who is the desire of all Nations O Lord this doth indeed convince me that the Soul that once findeth thee is presently content to part with all For this woman before thy revealing thy self to her was busied about her water-pot and her worldly imployments but after she had found the Messias she could as it were for joy forget her water-pot and willingly part with it to inform her Neighbours what she had found that they also might have a part with her O Lord that thou wouldst inable me also to leave all to follow thee and that I may like Simon Peter who when thou calledst him from his fishing left his nets straight-way and followed thee leave all my worldly wealth and follow thee and count all things dung and dross to gain thee and with the man spoken of in the Gospel sell all to obtain the pearl of greatest price that having found Jesus I may willingly part with all for thee and having thee may say I have enough Lord I am willing if thou call'st me to it to leave my water-pot and my nets and all for thee REFLECT V. Acts 24.25 And as he reasoned of righteousness temperance and judgement to come Felix trembled and answered Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will hear thee LOrd when I peruse this Verse and see that thy chosen Vessel though a Prisoner as he reasoned of Righteousness Temperance and Judgement to come could make Felix tremble and yet he could put him off to another season This makes me to reflect upon my self in regard of the good motions that the holy Spirit many times comes to me with as it were in the cool of the day when the heat of temptation is over saying Dost thou well to be angry dost thou well to love this world Dost thou not remember God hath bid the not to love this world nor to consume thy days in vanity nor to be vain in thy imaginations But God has bid thee work out thy salvation with fear and trembling and give all diligence to make thy calling and election sure Remember thou hast a great work to do and thou hast but a little moment to do it in thy body is but dust and must soon return to dust but thy soul is made for eternity it must last for ever it s more worth than an whole world therefore seek rest for that therefore look beyond things temporal to those that are eternal Lay up for thy self treasure in heaven and let thy heart be there also O Lord how often hath thy blessed Spirit thus as it were whispered into my Soul and though upon such serious considerations I have with Felix trembled for the present yet I have with him also said Go thy way for this time when I have a convenient season I will hear thee But O Lord I beseech thee pardon this procrastination and putting off good resolutions for the time past and now inable me to make haste and not delay to keep thy commandments and to follow the example of the Prodigal who said he would arise and go to his Father and he straight-way arose and went according to his resolution and promise Make me Lord to remember that it is to day if I will hear thy voice that I must not harden my heart and that now is the accepted time now is the day of salvation Let me therefore now work the work of God whilst it is day for the night cometh wherein no man can work Lord make me to consider that if it be hard to repent to day it will be much harder to morrow and that I have no assurance that I shall live till to morrow Make me therefore to remember thee my Creator in the days of my youth before the evil days come wherein I shall say I have no pleasure in them and with the wise Virgins to prepare to meet the Bridegroom of my soul with my lamp ready and well furnished with oyl that when thy blessed Spirit next knocks at the door of my heart by any good motion I may presently entertain it with caresses and satisfaction and not say with Felix Go thy way for this time when I have a more convenient season I will hear thee REFLFCT VI. 2 Sam. 12.5 And Davids anger was greatly kindled against the man and he said to Nathan As the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely dye LOrd when I read of Nathans coming to David and by a parable shewing