Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	baron_n	sir_n	william_n	12,557	5	8.1084	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42350	The Christians labour and reward, or, A sermon, part of which was preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Vere, relict of Sir Horace Vere, Baron of Tilbury, on the 10th of January, 1671, at Castle Heviningham in Essex by William Gurnall ...	Gurnall, William, 1617-1679.	1672 (1672)	Wing G2258; ESTC R10932	62,221	185

IMPRIMATUR Robert Grove THE CHRISTIANS Labour and Reward OR A SERMON Part of which was Preached at the Funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Mary Vere Relict of Sir Horace Vere Baron of Tilbury on the 10 th of January 1671. At Castle Heviningham in Essex The memory of the Just is Blessed Prov. 10.7 By humility and the fear of the Lord are Riches Honour and Life Prov. 22. ver 14. By William Gurnall M. A. of Emman Coll. now Pastor of Lavenham Suffolk Nobilis genere sed multo nobilior Sanctitate Hieron Epitaph Paulae Matris Ep. 27. LONDON printed by J. M. for Ralph Smith at the Bible under the Piazzo of the Royal Exchange in Cornhill 1672. TO THE Right Honourable Lady ELIZABETH Countess Dowager of Clare MADAM IT was a very merciful Providence which brought your Honour to your dear Mothers assistance in her dying sickness by which as you had the pleasure of recreating her Spirit with your presence and of giving an high Demonstration of your Piety to her in her low and weak state of body a vertue of great price with God and remarkably rewarded by him even in this life So also the happiness of being an eye witness to her Christian Deportment in her sharpest Pains and Agonies how her Faith and Patience triumphed over them all which no doubt did much sweeten the sorrow that her outward distress inflicted upon your tender Heart And indeed it is no wonder so holy a Life should have so Happy an end Mark the perfect man and behold the upright for the end of that man is Peace This Pretious Saint had made her Bed before she was to lye down on it Long had she been gathering these Spices Graces I mean for her dying Nest in the sweet Odours of which she at last so Holily and Peaceably breathed forth her Gracious Soul into the Arms of her beloved Saviour And now Madam seeing God hath determined your Will by declaring his it will highly become your Honour to bear her Decease as Saint Hierom did the death of the Noble Paula whom he so much honoured for her Piety Not by Mourning you have lost but by Praising God you had so Pretious a Saint to be your Mother and that you had her so long even to live to see and give her Blessing to your Childrens Children before her departure yea that you have her still Is there no way to have our Friends unless we have them in our sight She is not lost that still lives Her death was the end of her Mortality but there is no end of her Life In her Spirit she lives in Heaven with God to whom she lived on Earth In her good Name she lives with all that knew her or heard of her admirable Piety This like an after beam of the Sun-sett followed her to her bed of the Grave and still shines to her Honour The memory of the just is blessed though the name of the wicked rots even while it is remembred as the name of Pilate doth in the Creed to his reproach and curse And as to her Vertues she lives in your self and in as many other of her Noble Descendants as imitate her Piety It joyed this Blessed Saint while alive that she should leave her surviving Children and so many of her Grand-Children walking in the Truth And if an Heathen took such high content that the Honour which he arrived to befel him while his Parents were yet living whereby they had a pleasure in seeing his happiness How much more may it comfort the Pious Relations of this Saint that this their Pretious Parent had the joy of seeing them ennobled with Divine Grace and so in their way to Heaven before her self went thither I am sure it hath been an Heart-breaking-sorrow to some Children that they converted not to God before their Godly Parents bodies were converted into Dust and thereby cause them to go sighing with sorrow to their Graves who might they but first have seen them reclaimed would have gone down to them singing for joy It is a blessed sight to behold Children especially of Noble Persons imitating their Godly Parents Graces God is no respecter of Persons yet saith Saint Bernard I know not how it comes to pass that Vertue in a Noble Person doth more please Is it not haply because it is more conspicuous and so more attractive This Consideration made me more readily obey your Honours commands in publishing these mean Papers hoping that this great Example of Piety in so Noble a Lady together with the Honour that attended her to the Grave for it may cause some of high Birth a little more to consider their great mistake in thinking to overtake Honour in the dirty paths of Prophaneness and Irreligion and so be moved at last to change their way and turn into this clean road of Piety wherein this good Lady walking lived with so much esteem and dyed so wonderfully lamented The character that I have here given of her is True but not full nay far short of her worth Her Graces were of so high a strain that I may truly say what Saint Jerome did concerning his commending Marcella a Noble Roman Lady I was afraid to speak all I knew of her Wisdom Sanctity Charity and other Excellencies lest I should seem to exceed the belief of some those I mean who knew her not for as any were more and longer acquainted with her so their estimate of her advanced higher And must not that Piece be admirably well drawn which is most commended by those if able to judge that stand nearest and look longest on it And none I think will deny that famous light of his Age Bishop Usher to have been as able to judge in this case as any other and what an high esteem he had of this Lady and her Noble Lord and Husband also appears from a Letter written by him to her Forty years ago in which there is this passage The thing that I have most admired in your Noble Lord is that such lowliness of mind and such an high pitch of a brave Spirit should be yoaked together and lodged in one Breast And on the other side when I reflect upon you methinks I understand that saying of the Apostle better than I did That as the man is the Image and Glory of God so the woman is the Glory of the Man And to your comfort let me add this That if I have any insight in things of this Nature or have any judgment to discern of Spirits I have clearly beheld engraven in your Soul the Image and Superscription of my God Thus wrote this Excellent Person whose admirable judgment may keep any sober Person from thinking him in this high character guilty of rashness and light credulity and his known integrity is enough to free him from all suspicion of abusing his Pen to any servile flattery And they who knew the lowly Spirit of this good Lady and how