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A56406	The faithful and diligent Christian described and exemplified, or, A sermon (with some additions) preached at the funeral of the Lady Elizabeth Brooke, the relict of Sir Robert Brooke, to which is annexed ... an account of the life and death of that eminent lady : with an appendix containing some observations, experiences, and rules for practice, found written with Her Ladiship's own hand / by Nath. Parkhurst ...	Parkhurst, Nathaniel, 1643-1707.	1684 (1684)	Wing P489; ESTC R14746	35,723	168

and Sorrow For though all that knew her Conversation which was like that of Hizabeth in St. Luke 1.6 A walking in all the Commandments and Ordinances of the Lord blameless are mightily satisfied that her Soul resteth with God in the Regions of Light and Glory after which She with great Zeal and diligence had long aspired in a way of sincere Obedience Yet it is grievous to be deprived of One that was so fruitful in Age and always rich in Good Works and whose Prayers doubtless were through Christ very prevailing with God Upon which Account not only Her Family particular Friends and this Village but the whole Church of God sustains a great Loss in Her Remove and especially this sinful Nation Considering that she prayeth no more for this People It would imploy a large Volume to describe fully the eminent Qualities with which God had endowed Her The sum of which I shall endeavour to represent to this end That God in whom all Her fresh Springs were and from whom she received all may be glorified by it And that we all may be moved to the Imitation of so compleat a Patern of that Sanctity that is attainable in this present and imperfect State having had this Testimony from all that observed her That she was stedfast unmoveable and always abounding in the Work of the Lord. AN ACCOUNT OF THE Life and Death Of the LADY Elizabeth Brooke Including the Character given of Her in the Sermon preached at her Funeral THE Life and Death Of the LADY ELIZABETH BROOKE THE Lady Elizabeth Brooke was born at Wigsale in Sussex in January 1601 Her Father was Thomas Culpepper of Wigsale in Sussex Esquire a Branch of an antient Family of Gentry of that Name which was afterwards in her Brother advanced into the Rank of the Nobility who for his great Loyalty and eminent Services done to the Crown was created a Baron by Charles the First with the Title of John Lord Culpepper of Thoresway Her Mother was the Daughter of Sir Stephen Slaney Thus she had the Honour of a Genteel Extraction and a Noble Alliance and as her Family derived an Honour upon her so she hath reflected an additional Glory upon her Family by her great Vertues having been one of the most Accomplished Persons of the Age whether considered as a Lady or a Christian While she was in her Infancy she lost her Mother and in her Childhood her Father so that she came early under the more peculiar Care and Patronage of God who is in an especial manner the Father of the Fatherless Her first Education was under her Grand-mother by the Mother's side the Lady Slaney She had rare Endowments of Nature an excellent Mind lodged in a fine Body and under a beautiful Aspect something of which remained even in her old Age. She had an extraordinary quickness of Apprehension a curious Fancy great Solidity of Judgment and a considerable Memory She was married very young to Sir Robert Brooke Knight descended from a younger Brother of the Antient and Noble Family of the Brooks formerly Lord Cobham a Person of a good Estate and Vertue who lived with her six and Twenty Years and died July 10. 1646 by whom she had seven Children three Sons and four Daughters viz. James who died an Infant John who lived Twenty six Years and was married but died without Issue Anno Dom. 1652. Robert who had the Honour of Knighthood conferred upon him upon the King's Restauration a Gentleman of fine Parts and great Loyalty to his Prince and Fidelity to his Country He was a Member of that Parliament which brought the King from his Exile and of the following Parliament which began May the 8th 1661. He died as he was travelling through France Anno Dom. 1669 in the 33d Year of his Age much lamented by his Friends and Acquaintance He was married also but left no Childeren Mary her Eldest Daughter and the only Survivor who inherits much of her Grace and Vertues Elizabeth and Martha Persons of great Piety were married to Gentlemen of fair Estates and good Reputation who had divers Children and died the Elder Anno Dom. 1647 8 in the 25th Year of her Age the Younger Anno Dom. 1657 about the 29th Year of her Age. Anne who died in her Childhood They continued the two first Years in London as Boarders in the House of the Lady Weld her Aunt From thence they removed to Langly in Hartfordshire a Seat which her Husband purchased purposely for her Accommodation that she might be nearer her Friends in London And after some Years stay there they came to Cockfield his Paternal Seat and there she passed the Residue of her Earthly Pilgrimage excepting the two first Years of her Widowhood In all which places she lived a rare Example of Goodness and left a good Name behind her in every place from which she departed and especially in the last where she passed the most and last and best of her time and from which her Soul was translated to Heaven She had many Excellencies which recommended her to all that had the Happiness to know her But the greatest glory that shined in her was in Religion in which she was not only sincere but excelled To which general Head may be referred the following things as the distinct Flowers in that Crown of Righteousness She devoted her self to God and Religion very early rising in the Morning of her Age to attend the Work and Service of her great Lord Remembring her Creator in the days of her Youth She made haste and delayed not to keep his Commandments And this she pursued with great steadiness through the course of a long Life So that she was not only an Aged Person but which is a great Honour in the Church of God an Old Disciple And having begun thus early to apply her self to Religion in the Power and Strictness of it Parts and Industry and length of Time and the use of excellent Books and Converse with Learned Men uniting together rendred her one of the most knowing Persons of her Sex especially in Divinity and in the Scriptures which made her wise unto Salvation And this Knowledg was not confined to the Practical but extended also to the Controversal and Critical Part even to the Difficulties concerning Scripture-Chronology and the Solutions of many of them She was able to discourse pertinently upon any of the great Heads of Theology She could oppose an Atheist by Arguments drawn from the Topicks in Natural Theology and answer the Arguments of Papists Socinians Pelagians c. by the Furniture against them in the Holy Scriptures I never knew any other Person that had so great a Knowledg in Divinity who was not skill'd in the Learned Languages so that no Scholar could repent the time spent in Converse with her For she could bear such a part in Discourses of Divinity whether Didactical Polemical Casuistical or Textual that some of her Chaplains have professed they have been sometimes

Concerns of their Souls though of meaner Rank and Condition in the World To such she would speak wisely hear them patiently and treat them compassionately when under Temptations and Disquiet of Mind One of her own Servants coming to her Closet upon this account and beginning to open to her the Grief of her Heart She required her for that time to forget she was a Servant and discoursing with her with great Tenderness and Prudence in reference to her Temptations dismissed her comforted and much revived And very many others she received with the greatest Freedom ministring spiritual Comfort to them That part of Religion which is peculiarly stiled Devotion was the Joy of her Life and the Delight of her Soul A very considerable Portion of her Time was daily employed in Prayer searching the Scriptures and in holy Meditations These things were her proper Element and in them she would often profess she found her greatest Refreshments in these she conversed with God and was then least alone when most alone For she did not meerly perform these Duties nor generally engage in them as a Task but observed the frame of her Spirit in them and commanded the Affections of her Soul to wait upon God not being satisfied without some Emotions of Mind suitable to these holy Exercises as she hath often professed and which I gathered from her complaining sometimes of her Infirmities and of the Difficulty of Praying aright and of preserving throughout that Duty a due Sence of God The Christian Sabbath was also her Delight and a Day in God's Courts better to her than a thousand elsewhere and her Enjoyment of God in the Publick Ordinances and Services of that Day was to her as a little Heaven upon Earth And the Impressions she received by attending those holy Institutions were such as that she long'd in the Week for the return of the Sabbath And great was her Affliction when her Hearing was so impaired that she could not attend the Publick Worship of God though few were better furnished to supply that Want by private Exercises and Closet Devotions And having so eminently prized and improved the Lord's-Days it pleased God on the Evening of one of them to take her to himself there to keep an Everlasting Sabbath in his most immediate and glorious Presence in the Arms of Christ the Beloved of her Soul and in the Assembly of Angels Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs and all departed Saints And which deserves Admiration in the midst of all these Attainments Vertues and Graces she was greatly humble and clothed with the Ornament of a Lowly Spirit and while many admired the Example she gave in the World She apprehended that others excelled her in Grace and Godliness and continually reckoned her self among the least of Saints For notwithstanding her Quality in the World her exquisite Knowledge eminent Grace and the mighty Value her Friends had justly for her I could never observe in the whole Course of eighteen Years Converse the least Indication of vain Glory or self-Admiration in her And her Humility was of an excellent kind the Fruit of great Knowledg proceeding also from a deep Sense of the Fall the Corruption of Man's Nature the Imperfection of Mortification in this present State and the Remains of Sin in them that are sanctified and was nourished by a great Sight of God and Acquaintance with him and frequent Self-Examinations and by observing how Sin mingles it self in our best Actions and most holy Duties and by a diligent comparing her Self and her Actions with the exact Rules of the Scriptures Which Grace of Christian Humility was the more illustrious in her by the Accession of the Vertue of Courtesy which she had in a high degree entertaining all Persons with Civilities proper to their several Qualities so that she obliged all though she was evermore careful that nothing in Conversation might border upon those Freedoms that dishonour God and blemish the Christian Profession by this means adorning the Gospel and shewing that Religion though it requires great Strictness yet it doth not necessarily introduce either Melancholly or Moroseness And which is a much greater thing than to be courteous in the highest degree as a real Disciple of Christ she had learned to deny her self and could abridge her own Right that she might thereby promote the Glory of God benefit others avoid Offence and maintain Love and Peace And which may properly be subjoyned to her Self-denial as a Grace equal to it she industriously avoided Censoriousness disliking it in others and endeavoured to make the best Interpretation of both Words and Actions not lightly speaking Evil of any nor readily receiving an evil Report And above all things she abhorred to be Censorious in reference to Preachers and Sermons of which she was a most candid and equal Hearer Judicious and Critical enough but not Captious in the least If but Truth were spoken and Piety urged in any ordinary method she was satisfied so as not to find fault But the Sermons which she preferred were either Discourses greatly Rational or such as did particularly illustrate the sense of the Scriptures or discover the Excellency of the Gospel or such as displayed Christ in his Person Undertaking and Offices or such as discovered the difference between the Real and Almost Christian and such as did most nearly approach the Conscience and urge the Exacted Conversation and the governing the Heart Thoughts and inward Affections In all her Relations she demeaned her self as a Christian She was a faithful dutiful loving and prudent Wife And the Heart of her Husband safely trusted in her She was a most affectionate tender Wife and watchful Mother restraining her Children from Evil according to her power and bringing them up in the Nurture and Admonition of the Lord most constantly endeavouring to inftil into their Minds the Principles of Justice Holiness and Charity To them that became her Children by marrying into her Family she was most kinde and treated them as her own To her Servants and Tenants she was just and kind and to her Neighbours all that they could desire To her particular Friends she was endeared by her Prudence Fidelity and almost Excesses of Love and improving of Friendship to serve the great Ends of Religion which are the honouring of God and the bettering one another She was also a Loyal Subject to her Prince of which there is full Evidence in this following Relation which was communicated to me by one of her intimate Friends When his late Majesty was in his Enemies Hands and they were preparing for the horrid Murther of that Excellent Prince she was most passionately concerned and being very earnestly desirous that an Hand from Heaven might have prevented that Wickedness kept a private Fast in her Closet on his behalf And when she knew that God in just Judgment to the Nation had permitted Men to take away his precious Life she resented it with the Passions of a Mother professing that the loss