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A56119 A sermon on the occasion of the death of the Right Honourable Elizabeth Lady Cutts containing an account of her most pious life and lamented death. Provoste, John. 1698 (1698) Wing P3878; ESTC R2910 29,829 45

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They dyed upon the strength of God's Word as they before had acted by the directions of it and therefore the demanding of their Bible was to them the worst sort of persecution as the delivering of it was a worse degree of Apostacy they were ready to surrender their neglected Lives but never would resign their Sacred Books The abovesaid Chapter goes on thus But I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them who are asleep that you sorrow not even as others who have no hope She had all the hope for her self should then others grieve as if they had none For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again for us even so them also who sleep in Jesus will God bring with him v. 14. And v. 18. Wherefore comfort one another with these words These were the last words she read in her beloved Book that of Scripture and they were you hear words of Comfort but they were directed to others she had less need of comfort her self then others and we are to comfort one another with these words I would not imagine that as some have thought upon the opening of a Page in H●mer and Virgil there were any presages Divine and Extraordinary in the thing but there may be intimations of comfort in the Accident and so however there was only Chance it was at least a good one Thus her End was Peace It s being so is the Third thing to be considered It was this Peace which spoke those Words Noth●ng has frighted me nothing troubles me I trust in God I do I do and these words spoke again and declared this Peace the gracious words which proceeded out of her mouth and very few afterwards proceeded out of it which yet could not speak too many nor could we be too much hearers of them Her End must be Peace when every thing before was so her Life was Peace with her self in the Innocence and Calmness of her Mind with God in the Purity and Sincerity of her Actions with Mankind in all the lovely Meekness of her Behaviour Peace must be the End where living as She lived was the Business So Prudent she was in the Management of the Things of this World that she had therefore a new Title to the Bliss of another as he who shews all the Conduct in a Lower Office deserves the Advancement to an Higher one Luke 16.10 11. So He who was faithful in that which is least was to be faithful also in much and the true Riches were committed only to his trust who had been faithful in the unrighteous Mammon And Mat. 25. The mighty Lord of the Family profess'd to him who had improved the fewer Talents by the Skill and the Industry of the Use Well done thou good and faithful Servant thou hast been faithful over few things v. 21. I will make thee ruler over many things enter thou into the Joy of thy Lord. That the Perfect and Upright Person for whom we mourn for whom we cannot indeed do otherwise should keep Accounts so even and strict with Men was in her a Part of Religion as well as of Wisdom at the same time a lower Resemblance and a true Effect of her keeping all things even and strict with God in the Impartial Account of her daily Actions To be Just was but a mean Thing to her whom Sweetness of Soul joyned to the Tenderness of Religion disposed so much to be Charitable and how much in her the Best Principles of Nature and the Highest of Religion prevailed her Charity was an Evidence and the Poor are Witnesses Her wise Government of her Family prepared her for that Heaven where all things are done in Order and according to the Methods of true Reason and steady judgment and her Government of her self within that of the Mildest Spirit prepared her for the Place above the Scat of Love and Musick Her so Pious keeping of the Day which at this time we keep for the enjoying of the Rest which remains to the people of God and for the Celebrating of the Sabbath which she has now begun and which shall never end Her being Innocent Unspotted and White made her fit to converse with the Elders who are cloathed in white Robes Rev. 7.9 with the Virgins in whose mouth is found no guile Rev. 14.5 Eph. 5.27 and with that glorious Church which has not spot or wrinkle or any such thing Her Zeal her Constancy in Worship disposed her to be of one Quire with them Rev. 7.15 who are before the Throne of God and serve him day and night in his Temple As no Priest can be more dedicated to God by his Order then she was by her Inclination so her daily reading of one part of the Office of the Church and being thus a Priest to her self recommended her to a Place with them Rev 5. 9 10. who sing a new Song saying Thou hast made us to our God Kings and Priests and they have every one of them Harps and golden Vials full of Odours which are the Prayers of the Saints I might thus go on and at the same time shew what her Actions were and what in a natural Course they tended to and that was Heaven Ps 5.8 and so in David's Phrase Her way thither was made strait before her face This attempt may well be a Part of my Undertaking because I cannot think of a Person eminently righteous when Dead but I must in that instant think of Heaven as when I remember one that is absent whom I have great regard for I cannot but think of the Place which has the Presence that I want and sigh for Indeed Heaven was to be the end of her Actions which was the Object of her Thoughts for Actions rife from Thoughts and then must have a likeness to them as waters have to the Fountain from whence they flow and how good must her Actions be which flowed from such Thoughts as those of her Mind always were She was not to have the Pleasure of Knowing before that she was to die it was enough to have that of enjoying afterwards what should follow Death She must not have the Pleasure that others might not have the trouble the lengthened pain of the notice and she was not apt to think her self happy in any thing which others thought troublesome to themselves She was no otherwise surprized with Death then as we often are with something Joyful and Great which is not less welcome because less expected She was not to leave a Child behind her in pity to us that we who had so many other occasions might not have this to bleed anew in our wounds to remember the First Self in the Second There was less need of any Child from her who has left Pledges of her self yet more Noble a whole race of multiplied Virtues and there was more glory to her that in this as in other respects she might be now more like the