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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

which is fallen from them all I shall pick up and serve in one Dish To be sincerely religious to be a vertuous gracious godly woman is the highest accomplishment and deserves the greatest praise nay 't is the most honourable testimony can be given to any to say of her in truth she was godly and feared the Lord. There seems to be a great agreement and likeness betwixt the hundred and forty fourth Psalm in point of happiness and this Chapter in matter of Duty and Praise resulting from it And therefore the transcribing those words may give much light and illustration to what lies before us David therefore to shew populum quae faciunt beatiorem What will make a people happy proceeds thus v. 12. That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth that our daughters may be as corner stones polished after the similitude of a palace Vers 13. That our garners may be full affording all manner of store that our Sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our Streets Vers 14. That our oxen may be strong to labour that there be no breaking in nor going out that there be no complaining in our Streets Vers 15. Happy is that people that is in such a case Every one will be ready to acknowledge and admire the happiness of such a People But saith David I 'll tell you who are infinitely and more truly happy yea who are only so indeed yea happy is that people whose God is the Lord. So Solomon in this Chapter to describe the Woman who deserveth praise she that is so good a wife that the heart of her Husband doth safely trust in her that will do him good and not evil all the days of his life that is a Crown to him and renders him honourable in the gates She that is so good an Houswife that she worketh willingly with her hands stays at home riseth early is industrious planteth purchaseth increaseth her estate she that is so good a Mother as to educate her children well and so good a Mistress as to provide most carefully for all her servants that they are so far from wanting cloaths that their Liveries are Scarlet She that is so good a Neighbour that she treats the rich and relieves the poor and needy Super omni● a vultus accessere boni and obliges all by the law of kindness in her tongue sweetning all by kindest words and kinder looks This Woman certainly deserves to be admired yea is almost adored as a terrestrial Goddess But after all this saith Solomon yet shew I you a more excellent way to obtain true and lasting praise the godly Woman the Woman that feareth the Lord she she deserves to be praised above all others Most Men and Women affect to be praised but 't is for the most part for vain and deceitful things which deserve no praise at all and if they attain any 't is a poor and empty praise which may sound and make a noise in the world amongst the foolish heard but signifies little with wise Men and nothing at all with God who designs Glory and Honour for none but those who seek it by patient continuance in well doing and working good Rom. 2.7 10. But to fear the Lord that is to be godly this deserves praise indeed A truth so evident and clear by its own light 't is hard to add any thing to it for proof or illustration to make it clearer nature hath printed it in our hearts and the new nature in a second and fairer edition as a common principle And first notions are indemonstrable To praise is to bear witness or give an honourable testimony of a Man or Womans having such a Virtue Grace Perfection Excellency in them and the very acknowledging and testifying that they have them is a praising of them highly as Acts 11.24 Barnabas is abundantly praised in that testimony that he was a good man full of the Holy Ghost and of faith without adding other encomiastick Words So when God himself vouchsafes to write Job's Panegyrick Job 1.1 he calls him his servant a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and escheweth evil Acts 13.22 And S. Paul expresly saith that God gave testimony to David when he said of him I have found David a man after mine own heart who shall fulfil my will For as we say for reproach call a man ungrateful and you can say no worse you have stigmatized him with the foulest brand So for Praise call a Woman Godly you need say no more there 's praise enough in that So that if you confine me strictly I must stick in the Center and draw no lines from it but all will return upon it self and be the Epha never so full it will settle upon its own Base I may say aliud but not amplius none can be commended highlyer than to have this Character imprest they fear the Lord. Again if I should compare the fear of the Lord with other things to give it its due preference or let my self loose into an enumeration of its causes properties effects signs consequents advantages and unseasonably common-place upon it I should lanch into an Ocean in which I should lose my self and your patience and despair to kenn a shore in more than an hours sailing I shall therefore confine my self or rather willingly submit to be confined by the straits of time to very narrow measures which shall be these two 1. To point in general at the objects of Praise and shew what interest Religion or the Fear of God hath in them 2. To shew what usually acquires praise to men in reference to God their Neighbours and themselves and declare how being sincerely religious will intitle us to it on those Accounts 1. As to the Objects of true Praise ' The first and grand object of Praise is God and the divine perfections which is so evident through all the Scriptures and to the light of Reason that I 'll not waste time to prove it and consequently what is next to them and likest to them is the next and first in the order of the secondary objects of Praise Now that is the Image of God reflected and imprinted on the Soul of Man and this Religion and the Fear of God produceth Eph. 4.24 The new man is created after God's image in righteousness and true holiness And Coloss 3.10 The new man is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him And they that sincerely embrace the great and precious promises of the Gospel are thereby made partakers of the divine nature A God-like temper and disposition For Godliness is Godlikeness Therefore 't is enjoyned in such language Be ye holy for I am holy or as I am holy saith the Lord. 1 Pet. 1.16 and Luk. 6.36 Be ye merciful as your Father is merciful and be ye perfect as your heavenly father is perfect Matth. 5.48 They therefore that approach so near the most praise-worthy object