Selected quad for the lemma: lord_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
lord_n	christian_a	day_n	sabbath_n	12,184	5	9.9778	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44075	Two consolatory letters written to the right honorable the Countess of Westmorland The first upon the occasion of the death of Sr Roger Townshend, Baronet: the second upon the death of Mrs Anne Cartwright, Her Honour's children by Sir Roger Townshend, Baronet, her former husband.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing H2324B; ESTC R218018	16,407	30

Two Consolatory LETTERS Written to the RIGHT HONORABLE THE COUNTESS OF Westmorland The first upon occasion of the death of Sr ROGER TOWNSHEND Baronet The Second upon the death of Mrs ANNE CARTWRIGHT Her Honour's Children by Sir ROGER TOWNSHEND Baronet her former Husband LONDON Printed by A. Maxwel for SAMVEL GELLIBRAND at the Golden Ball in St. Paul's Church yard 1669. TO THE Right Honourable Lady THE LADY MARY COUNTESS OF WESTMORLAND MADAM THE Doctrine of the vanity of the lesser World Man and of the greater World unto Man here presented unto your Ladiships hands hath been from Heaven with sound of Drum and Trumpet preached yea proclaimed in your ears and the ears of this whole Nation now for above seven years together And if Warr that Boanerges or Thundering Preacher at your very door had not spoken loud enough to be heard God hath by a sad hand of his Providence written the same Lesson in very legible Characters to your Ladiship from beyond the Seas Fear not Madam I beseech you to read on the design of this Epistle is not to renew your grief but to promote or perpetuate your joy rather You have had the delight of your eyes the joy of your heart the Heir and Glory of your House your dearly beloved Son Sir Roger Townshend whose memory is and shall be precious about his best Estate and in the very Spring and Flower of his Age cropt off by the hand of Death in a strange Land of whom I had almost said alluding to that of the Apostle Paul Phil. 3.4.5 That if any man thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust in the flesh to say wherefore he should not be made subject unto Vanity but be priviledged from the Arrest of Death He more A Gentleman nobly descended of a large Estate very good Parts much Ingenuity and remarkable Piety And here I shall not take upon me the Office of an Herauld to blazon his Coat and tell who he was among the Great Men of the World but of a Divine rather in some measure to Anatomize his heart and shew what he was amongst good men and towards God Madam The Days the Years of Mourning for your deceased Son are past and God hath since given you many Sons in place of him whom He took And therefore I hope the mentioning of his death shall not revive your former sorrows to endanger your life When he was in France I remember your Ladiship took pleasure in having his Picture by you which was sent you from thence Now that he is gone to Heaven give me leave I pray you to endeavour to describe what manner of Man he was as to his better part his Soul I mean even when he was here upon Earth The Picture of his Piety will I humbly conceive be no small honour to your Ladiship a great Ornament to the House and an excellent Pattern and Copy to the whole Family Wherefore without further Preface As Joseph's Brethren said to their Father Jacob Gen. 37.32 This have we found know now whether it be thy Sons Coat or no. So say I This have I found looking in my Memory Know now whether it be your Son's Picture or no. I begin with his Religion there where usually Religion begins He was a careful observer of the Lord's Day or Christian Sabbath attending diligently upon the publike Ordinances sometimes hearing Three but constantly Two Sermons in a Day and often taking Notes A practise before his time but somewhat rare in Cambridg among Students of his Rank Nor did his Sabbath end with the publike solemn Service He was devout at home as well as at Church He was one of the chief Instruments to set up and countenance that good Custom in the Colledg of meeting together on the Lord's-day-night after Supper to pray sing and repeat the Sermon in their Chambers and this at a time when it was so strange and unwelcome to some profane spirits thereabouts that I remember once there was a Brick-bat thrown in at the Window amongst them where and whilst they were at Prayers together He kept a watch over the door of his lips on that day lest his words should be either of worldly businesses or recreations and for this reason he would then often take his Commons in his Chamber rather than in the Colledg-Hall lest there in a mixt company he should be put upon Discourses or Questions unsuitable for that Day His manner was to approach the Lord's Table not without solemn preparation for which work he did not only allot himself but allow his Servants also convenient time on the Week-days And besides the examination of his own Conscience he submitted himself to be examined by Mr. Calamy before his first admission to the Sacrament with his Congregation and having once a door opened to that Ordinance he would afterwards so cast his Journeys to London if it might be as to be there on the day of their Monthly Sacrament to be a Guest at the Lord's Table at which times when he could not be with your Ladiship he would chuse such Lodgings as where he thought he might enjoy God his Sabbaths and Ordinances best Nor was all his Devotion confined to the weekly-Weekly-Sabbath only He was also a Religious observer of Days of publike Fasts or Humiliation and of publike Feasts or Rejoycing which some call Sabbaths extraordinary I remember that when once upon a Day of Thanksgiving he was desired to go to Bowls he did out of Conscience refuse it though it were if I mistake not after the Ordinances were done in publike and though thereunto desired by a Noble Friend and in very civil company Besides these publike solemn times of Worship both ordinary and extraordinary he would sometimes keep a private Fast by himself in his Chamber I remember he kept one once at Cambridg for to humble his soul for the sins of his Thoughts and particularly of his Dreams Hitherto I have shewed you Madam your Son's Picture one way only as it respects God looking upward Will you see it another way as it looks downward towards man Come and see He was a lover of good men of those he chose his Intimates A lover particularly of Good Ministers to those he gave hopes of being a good Friend and Patron now in a time when they have many great Enemies and but few real and powerful Friends How willing was he to have trod in those good steps of his deceased Father To have given the Impropriate Tythes of Rudham to make a considerable maintenance for a good Minister He was charitable not to say bountiful to them that stood in need I remember once at Raynham he gave ten shillings to a poor old man of the Town that came to see him And when he left the University he gave a Pension or Allowance of ten or twelve pounds per annum to a poor Scholar who had waited on him there of which charitable act as well as of his Lands his loving Brother