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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	grace_n	temperance_n	1,784	5	11.4380	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A61998	A sermon at the funeral of the virtuous lady, and honoured, Ann, late wife of Thomas Yarburgh, Esq . Preached on Monday, the 10th day of July, 1682. By Matthew Sutcliffe.	Sutcliffe, Matthew, 1637 or 8-1707.	1682 (1682)	Wing S6205B; ESTC R222127	17,195	23

Divine Virtues that were so illustriously resplendent in her whole Life may give us a great and convincing Argument to believe If we should run through all the several ranks of Virtues Intellectual Moral and Theological we should find her defectvie in none of them But that being too prolixa Theme for our narrow limits of time I shall crave your pardon and leave to mention briefly some few of those virtues that were most conspicuous in her tho without method or order and as they occur to my thoughts Her intellectual Virtues were known to all that knew or convers'd with her to be very great Nature had furnish'd her with a great quickness of Apprehension acuteness of Wit and Retentiveness of Memory Solidity of Judgment which she had improved by diligent Reading and Conversation whereby she had accomplish'd her self in an eminent manner with the knowledg of all things decent and praise-worthy in her sex and had acquired an ablity to discourse at least with any of her Sex in concerning most matters either of humane or Divine knowledg She conversed much with the Books of various kinds of Learning and employed much time in Reading But her cheif study was with those Noble Bereans whom St. Paul commends Acts 17.11 12. to search the Scripture daily because she knew these only contain the Words of eternal Life and therefore with Mary she chose the better part of Learning even the Doctrine and Knowledg of Jesus Christ In these sacred Books she sought that Knowledg which alone is able to make men wise unto Salvation which she preferred before all other Wisdom and by her serious and assiduous Study and Meditation in them she did adorn her Soul with the glorious Ornaments of rich and manifold Graces Amongst her personal Moral Virtues the Virtue this Gentlewoman did most study and exercise was Humility This indeed is the peculiar Grace of Christians most becoming our state both as Creatures and as Sinners the Parent and Nurse of other Graces that preserves us in the light of Faith and heat of Love that procures Modesty in Prosperity and Patience in adversity and is so lovely in the eyes of God that tho he resisteth the proud yet he gives grace to the humble It is the foundation of honour and glory for he that humbleth himself shall be exalted This Grace of Humility was most conspicuous through the whole course of her Conversation being most eminently apparent in the meekness and modesty of her behaviour in the gentleness and affability of her converse in the low thoughts she had of her self and her freedom from censoriousness of others in the plainness of her apparel and dress She was as the Apostle exhorts cloathed with humility and her chief ernaments were those of a meek and quiet Spirit which are in the sight of God of great price Her Temperance and Sobriety were great and exemplary no further indulging the body but to make it more serviceable to her mind She was far from excess even in lawful pleasures but strictly abstinent from all that are unlawful that stain and debase the Soul and alienate it from converse with God and mortifie its taste to spiritual delights Diligence was also a known Virtue in her her active mind filling up all the empty spaces of time with something useful or delightful to her self or others But besides all her personal moral Virtues her Piety toward God deserves our serious consideration Her Religion was grave and sober not mimical or superstitious free from Phanatical Whimsies and Enthusiasms on one hand and superstitious Dotages and Fopperies on the other not flourishing in the leaves of a gay but barren profession but bringing forth the fruits of Faith Patience Meekness Mortification Charity Devotion and holiness of Life She was a constant and diligent Attender upon the publick Worship of God and not less careful in the performance of her private Devotions giving her self with great assiduity and intention of mind to Reading Meditation and Prayer setting a part certain hours of every day for the exercise of those holy Duties in which she was regular and constant so long as her Memory and other Rationals remained intire And in short there shone in her such a happy Constellation of precious Virtues as sufficiently manifested it to have been her pious care and study to build up her self in all Grace and Holiness and to add to her faith virtue and to virtue knowledg and to knowledg temperance and to temperance patience and to patience godliness and brotherly kindness and charity And tho it pleased God either for the Causes by us before mentioned or others best known to himself to suffer these Lights in the latter end of her life to be eclipsed and obscured by the thick fumes of a black Melancholly and the distempers of a troubled Spirit yet we who have often seen the Sun setting in a Cloud and yet arise in his wonted lustre do no less hope that these Graces shall rise with her a more bright and radiant in the morning of the Resurrection In fine her whole life was led according to the strict Rules of Piety and Virtue whereupon we may in Charity believe and on good grounds conclude that she hath fought a good fight she hath finished her course and kept the faith and is now gone to receive her reward the crown of Righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judg shall give to all that love his appearing Therefore leaving her to her quiet and happy rest let us return to our selves You have heard how few our days are and how full of trouble Let the consideration thereof awaken us to pass the time of our sojourning here in fear and to give all diligence to work out our own salvation with fear and trembling that we may pass from this short and troublesome life to that everlasting one which no troubles can disturb or discompose no end shall ever determine Let us prepare for that happy state by sincere repentance and a holy life and send up our hearts to Heaven as an Earnest that we would have our Souls there Let our desires be above tho our bodies are below and being weary of the troublesome vanities of this world let us aspire and long after the blessed Seat of Rest wherein dwelleth Righteousness and her inseparable Companions Peace Joy Glory Happiness and eternal Life As there is no sin in Heaven so there are no sufferings no troubles there no sorrow can ever enter into those blessed Regions Thither the reedee●●d of the Lord shall come with everlasting joy upon their heads they shall obtain joy and gladness and sorrow and sighing shall flee away FINIS