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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
knowledge_n	faith_n	patience_n	temperance_n	4,962	5	11.6128	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91801	A sermon preached at Walden in Essex, May 29th. At the interring of the corps of the right Honorable Susanna, Countesse of Suffolke. Being a modest and short narration of some remarable passages in the holy life and death of that memorable lady. Who dyed May 19th. 1649. / By Edw: Rainbowe. D.D.	Rainbowe, Edward, 1608-1684.	1649 (1649)	Wing R141; Thomason E532_40	25,929	38

Habits or Qualities inherent in our selves or supposed so to be by others yet it is aliquid extra something without us it is that which others apply to us think or speak of us We must distinguish betwixt a Good Name fundamentally meritorious and inward and a Good Name applicatively dispensed and outward To deserve a Good Name or to have a Good Name A Good name really or a Good name onely Nominally in the eyes of God or from the tongues of Men. And so there is a threefold Good name according to a threefold condition of men There are men meerely Naturall others civilly Morall and a third sort Christian and Religious so you may have what every one of these three call a Good name for complyance either with Nature Morality or Grace First for Naturall parts as Judgement Wit Memory Strength Indowments or from great performances by them done Thus you may be said by some men to have a Good Name even for evill actions The world will speak well of you if you live according to the custome of the world Beware saith our Saviour when men speak well of you that is when you have a Good Name with the men of this world their praise is an ill sign none hath a Good Name with them except they run to the same excess of Ryot with them This Good Name is no Precious Oyntment but a stain a besmearing it makes no perfume but a stench in the nostrills of men truly nay onely morally Good Examine what Good signifies with wicked prophane men as a Good Gamster a Good Companion a Good Fellow that is a good drinker or good to drive away the precious time here how much the better the worse a Good Name here is a very eare-mark a brand a stigmatizing that is not the Good Name commended in the text the Naturall mans Good-name So a Great Name is not alwaies a Good Name as Alexanders Caesars the Babel-builders no more than his who burnt a temple to be talked of to have a Great Name Secondly the Morall mans Good Name or Fame for acts or habits morally Good either Practicall or Speculative a man may have a Good Name for excelling in his Art or Profession as a Good Physitian a Good Divine in Mechanicks a Good Engineer a Good Artificer but chiefly for the Habits of Morall Vertues as for Justice Temperance Valour Sobriety Thrift and the like for either excelling in some one or some few of these vertues a man may have a Good Name and this Good Name is very commendable in its degree and station especially if it be grounded on Reall not Counterfeit Vertues and these universall sincere not with any mixture of Vice as to have a Name for Justice Temperance Prudence or other vertues is to have a Good Name but not the Good Name here meant Thirdly and lastly to make Morall Vertues complete by the Theologicall or Christian Vertues Faith Hope and Charity this is the Christians Good Name to have Morality baptized to turne Vertue into Grace to plant all those faire Cyens on the Fruitfull stock of Faith to get first that Mother Grace of Faith and then to adde to your Faith Vertue as 2 Pet. 1. 5. Giving all diligence saith he adde to your Faith Vertue Let Faith be first in the number then adde and multiply Adde to your Faith Vertue and to Vertue knowledge and to Knowledge Temperance and to Temperance Patience and to Patience Godlinesse to Godlinesse Brotherly Kindnesse and to Brotherly Kindnesse Charity Charity in whose wombe lye all the Vertues all the Duties of the second Table he that hath and exerciseth these hath laid a good Foundation hath gained a good Report his Name shall be written Good upon that Foundation hee hath approved himselfe unto God and Men 'T is not the Praises of men but to approve himself and his Conscience to God which he seekes but yet the Generation of the Faithfull shall call him Blessed And this is that which I call the Christians Good Name That 's the first thing what is here meant by a Good Name Now that we may come nearer to the comparison Secondly why is it said Than Pretious Oyntment By Oyntment so set out under the Title of Precious is meant the Richest the most delicious pleasures In those Countries and Times these Oyntments were used for the greatest most sumptuous Delights and Refreshments whether for their fragrancy and aromaticall sweetnesse which ravished the Sence of smelling a sence of great pleasure and delight or else that they were made of healthfull ingredients and compositions of oyle and such as made the face to shine that is conduced to make them chearefull and merry or because they were also soveraign balm and medicinable to heal and strengthen or lastly because the greatest cost that might be was frequently laid out in such Oyntments as that remembred to have been bestowed on our Saviour by the woman of Bethany Mark 14. 3. Spikenard very precious which made such a fragrancy that it hath given a Good Name to that woman according to our Saviours prediction in all places where the Gospel is or hath been preached Although I might shew some other grounds for the similitude the inward fragrancy and the outward diffusion making the face to shine and making the man to shine c. yet these I pass over and many the like The meaning of drawing Precious Oyntment into the comparison is this by a Synechdoche or a comprehending many things under one word A Good Name is better than Precious Oyntment that is better than whatsoever is Delicious Pleasant or Wholsome or Costly in a word it s better than all corporall Pleasures that 's the firme assertion of the Text. And because Contraria juxta se posita c. Contraries placed together appear best place them now in the Scales Vertue Piety Grace in the one Scale Worldly Pleasures and Delights in the other and See with a sound Judgment and steddy hand which will be of most weight and price I will not here shew you the base low and unsatisfying objects of the one such as never quench the thirst of desire and in the other that by them we are carryed up to God the chiefest and only filling Good I need not tell you the one are transitory and fade in a moment that the other carry us to Eternity and remain with us there that the end of Pleasure is pain and shame What pleasure have you in those things whereof you are now ashamed that the end of Vertue and Godliness is Comfort here and Glory hereafter Si quid benè feceris cum dolore c. The saying is eminent if you do any thing well though with travell and pain the paines and travell cease and vanish but the good Conscience of the Deed and the Good Name remaine for ever But on the contrary Si quid malè feceris cum voluptate c. If you do any thing ill with Pleasure the

precious vein in the Rich Mine of his Word This was the last continued act of Reason which she performed only when her strength was even spent she owned her Dear relations when they came unto her did let them understand she was now marryed to Christ joyn'd with most heedfull attentions in Prayer with one whom she then desired to doe that office gave signes of approbation and requested that he which poured it out on her behalf would not go out of the room after that within little more than an hour in a quiet kind of sleep the passages of life being stopped she yielded up her Spirit unto God that gave it leaving behind her the bitterest and loudest lamentations of her friends to whom she was the most desired Creature that God ever placed in their eyes and relations Thus dyed Susanna Countesse of Suffolke and thus she lived twenty two years a rare example of early and pregnant Graces And now if I have set her Image so fresh before your eyes that you make haste to meet her there with any of your tears let me as I began draw them to the Text that by the comfort of it they may be wiped away What think you now if we build her a good Name on this Foundation She hath left us all Materials What can be wanting Greatness Goodness Nature Grace Wit Memory a good Vnderstanding a gracious Heart unfeigned Faith look at the Apostles materials and see what is wanting Faith Vertue Knowledge Brotherly Kindness c. 2 Pet 1. 12. As David who had in his heart and purpose to build a Temple to God left all materials Silver and Gold and Precious Stones and the willing hearts of the People for Solomon to build a Temple out of Tryly she hath left us all the materials that may be to build a Temple of her good Name the bright Silver of her Naturall Parts and endowments the purer Gold of her Virtues and purchased habits and above all the shining Jewels of Gods Graces and Image her precious faith as the Apostle phrases it her burning Zeal fervent Charity pure Religion and undefiled She was all for Sanctuary-words Whilst she lived with those wise-hearted Women Exod. 38. that brought for the service of the Tabernacle their blue and purple and Skarlet and fine linnen and their looking-Glasses All her ornaments all her faculties and Phancies all her desires were to build up her self a Tabernacle a Temple for the service of the living God and besides blessed be God she hath left willing hearts behind her the greatest love and the greatest desire of her self that hath been heard of those that have been ready to weep out their eyes for her being dead would willingly have pluckt out their eyes as the Apostle saith to have kept her alive Seeing then Death hath broken this Alablaster Boxe of precious ointment to pour the liquor of it on her head to annoint her to her Burial and to leave a fragrancy which may fill the world with her sweet memoriall let us give her what is better than Precious ointment and what she hath deserved from us as being the gift of God to her A good Name which so often as it shall sound her memory in our ears let her virtues if their be any Virtue any Goodness any Praise come into our minds let the imitation of them be aspired after in one ardent desire that we may bless God who lent us so rich an example and may all laud and glorifie his name who hath give her such a glorious Name and us so clear an assurance that the Day of her Death was better to her than the Day of her Birth FINIS