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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56406	The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ...	Parkhurst, Nathaniel, 1643-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing P489; ESTC R14746	35,723	168

of one of her dearest Children came not nearer to her Heart And in a Letter to that Friend she thus bewailed it O that you were with us though but for a few days that we might bemoan our selves together and this miserable Nation upon which God poureth out so great Wrath and yet such Spiritual Judgments are seized upon us That many of us who pretend the greatest Interest in Him can see nothing but Mercies and glorious Times I find nothing so much moves me as to hear Men whom I hope I may call pious speak concerning the Times my Patience is so much put to it as Rules of Wisdom and Policy can find no place with me I can truly say I dissent from many whom I would honour and whose Judgments I do in many things prefer before my own without any kind of Doubt or Reluctancy admiring and standing amazed at their Delusions I am now taught the great Danger of Evil Principles strong Engagements Spriritual Pride c. In reference to His present Majesty her Loyalty proceeded by these steps She was a true Mourner under his Sufferings Exclusion Exile and the Disappointment of several Efforts that were made for his Restitution And she so disgusted the then usurping Powers that she would not joyn in the keeping of either the Fairing or Thanksgiving Days appointed by them in reference to their Designs or Successes She rejoyced in all his Deliverances and especially in his Miraculous and Happy Restauration And I do verily believe there was no Person in the three Kingdoms that better understood than she did the Dignity of the High Station to which God restored Him or that paid Him a greater Veneration or prayed more heartily for Him or was more sollicitous for His Safety in His Person and Government She was also conformable to the present Establishment in all things in which her Obedience was required and her Practice concern'd so that in reference to the Church of England she was truly Ours and one of the greatest Ornaments of our Communion The Separation though she respected Piety in all forts of Men was grievous to her and she thought it unreasonable And this was her Judgment from the beginning in which she was encouraged in her early Years by the Divines of her Acquaintance some of them Nonconformists who when those of the then Separation attempted to insinuate their Principles into her advised her to neglect them and to attend the great and substantial things of Religion as Faith Godliness Justice and Charity But withal such was her Moderation that she earnestly desired the Success of the Comprehension designed by the Lord-Keeper Bridgman Sir Matthew Hale then Lord Chief Baron and Dr. Wilkins c. And as that worthy Judg so She relieved many sober Non-conformists with great Bounty and most eanestly desired to have seen them legally settled in a Publick Ministry Many things more might be added to this Account of her Attainments Graces and Vertues but all may be summ'd up in this shorter Character She had the Knowledg of a Divine the Faith Holiness and Zeal of a Christian the Wisdom of the Serpent and the Innocence of the Dove She had Godliness in the Power of it and adorn'd it She was serious but not melancholly and chearful without any Tincture of Vanity very holy and no less humble and thankful to God for all His Mercies and had a mighty Sense of her need of Christ the Mediator depending entirely upon His Merits and Satisfaction renouncing all her own Works in the point of Justification By these things she attain'd a good and which she never sought a great Name Dr. Sibs an Eminent Divine Master of K. Hall Cambridg and Preacher to the Honourable Society of Grayes-Inn who frequented her House at Langley in Hartfordshire would say that he went to other places mostly to satisfy others but thither to please himself Dr. Edw. Reynolds late Lord Bishop of Norwich having been nobly entertained at her House professed afterward that the best of his Entertainment was his Converse with so Excellent a Person Another now a Dignitary of the Church of England returned from a Visit made to her and said the half was not told him Another a Person of Quality and great Learning who loved to speak much in few Words having observed her Gravity Holiness Prudence and Freedom from all that is little humourous or morose said she was a Woman of a Generous Piety Another saith of her That she had a Greatness of Mind rare Knowledg a becoming Gravity and great Sincerity That she was highly devout a chearful Giver patient under the Cross and endued with all the Vertues and Graces of those excellent Women whose Praise is in the Scriptures for Obedience to their Husbands Religious Care of their Children Bounty to God's Ministers Hospitality to their Friends Charity to the Poor and Piety towards God But the Latine is more elegant which came thus from his Ingenious Pen. Ingenio mascula Mente Theologa Ore Gravis Corde Sancta Cultu Intensfa Charitate Laeta Crucis Patiens tota Moribus Generosa Marito Sara Liberis Unice Nepotibus Lois Ministris Lydia Hospitibus Martha pauperibus Dorcas Anna Deo Such were her Qualifications great and eminent and so were the Providences of God towards her for she had great Prosperities and interchangeably great Afflictions The first she entertain'd humbly and the other patiently To her Prosperities may be referred The great Kindness of her Husband with a numerous Family and a very plentiful Estate during his Life and a competent Revenue afterwards in her Widowhood a fine Temperature of Body so that she was seldom sick though never strong the Continuance of her Parts and the Vigor of her Intellectuals and Firmness of her Judgment even in the last Years of her Life the Respects and Civilites she received from the Gentry in her Neighbourhood the Blessing of long Life the concluding of some unkind Law-suits which as she did not begin so she could not prevent and the seeing every remaining Branch of her Family largely provided for and in a very good Condition before her Death And which was more than all these as the best of her Prosperities she enjoyed much inward Peace which though it had sometimes Mixtures of Doubts and Fears was generally firm and steady and sometimes advanced into Joys and great Consolation Her Afflictions were chiefly Widowhood and loss of Children The sharpest of all her Trials was the untimely Death of her last Son with the aggravating Circumstances of it being drown'd this was very surprizing invaded her like an Inundation of Waters threatning all the Banks both of Reason and Grace Her Friends feared she would not long survive it But the Power and Presence of God supported her and she not only lived many Years after it but also recovered again in a great measure her former Chearfulness Her Demeanour under this sad Providence was Christian She did not murmur though at first astonished and after that