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A65259	Mary's choice declared in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wharton, late wife of the Honourable Sir Thomas Wharton, Knight of the Bath, at Edlington in the county of York together with a narrative of the religious and holy life, and death of that excellent lady / by P.W., Rector of Edlington.	P. W. (Peter Watkinson), d. 1688.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1079; ESTC R38495	55,178	52

Truth and cannot Lie and will not he remember the Word unto his Servants wherein he hath caused them to hope Surely he will ever be mindful of his Covenant of the performance whereof he hath given so many securities 105.8.111.5 for he hath bound it with his Oath Heb. 6.17 and Seal Ephes 5.13 and Earnest ibid. vers 14. and the first fruits of his Spirit Rom. 8.23 which is a blessed forerast of Eternal Happiness in some degrees of that joy of the Holy Ghost which is unspeakable and full of Glory 1 Pet. 1.8 and of that Peace of God which passeth all understanding Phil. 4.7 And shall we think all this to be in vain as indeed it might be if it could be taken away No surely his design in these various confirmations of his Promise and of our Faith in it is that by such immutable things wherein it is impossible for God to Lie Heb. 6.18 we might have strong consolation 5. Lastly This good part so chosen and enjoyed is of a spiritual and divine nature 2 Pet. 1.4 Although through the strength of remaining corruption and the violence of temptation it may for the time be obscured and eclipsed yet it shall never be extinguished and utterly lost This Reed may be shaken and bruised Mat. 12 20. but shall not be quite broken This Flax may be reduced to smoaking but shall not utterly be quenched The Seed that is sown shall remain 1 John 3.9 though for a time it lie hid under-ground yet the Prolifick vertue that is in it will make a seasonable appearance that it was not dead when it lay hid Job 19.28 The root of the matter is still in him who is once planted in the Courts of the House of our God so that he shall still bring forth Psalm 92.13 though sometimes for the while his branches shew neither Fruit nor Leaves yet that Sap which is retired to the heart and root will certainly put forth its vigour again and produce both Leaves and Fruit. The things that are chosen Col. 3.1 2 Cor. 4.18 Col. 1.5 2 Tim. 4.8 Mat. 25.34 1 Pet. 1.4 5. are above things not seen and eternal our Hope and Crown is laid up for us in Heaven the Kingdom and Inheritance was prepared for us from the Foundation of the World and it is inoorruptible and fadeth not away being reserved in Heaven for us and we our selves are kept by the power of God through Faith unto Salvation c. How should these things be if this good part so chosen could be taken away Since therefore this one thing is so necessary so good useful and profitable and withal so durable that when we are once actually possessed of it we can never be wholly deprived of it What remains but that we prefer it in our esteem according to its worth before all things in the World and speedily resolve as we were before exhorted to make this Choice with Mary To which the Lord direct us and in it assist us for his great Names sake To whom with our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost that ever blessed Unity in Trinity and Trinity in Unity be all Glory Honour and Praise now and ever Amen A Narrative of the Religious and Holy Life and Death of the Lady Mary late Wife of Sr. Thomas Wharton Knight of the Bath In great part as it was delivered at her Funeral with many material passages since added HAving now done with the Text it will justly be expected that I should speak something of that Heavenly Soul whose Corps are now to be Interred to solemnize whose Funerals so many Noble and Worthy Persons are here congregated She was a very sutable Parallel to Her in the Text both in her Name and Choice Nor will it seem strange to those that knew her that she should be in some degree matched with those renowned Maries whom we have had occasion to mention the Mother of our blessed Saviour only excepted who was favoured and blessed above all Women had she but enjoyed the Priviledge of their opportunities to have given like evidence of her great Devotion and Heavenly affection Her Extraction was Noble and Honourable as this Mary's in the Text is probably supposed to be being the Eldest Daughter of the late Right Honourable Henry Earl of Dover whose Grandfather was the renowned Henry Lord Hunsdon Cousin German by the Mothers side to that most excellent Queen of ever blessed memory Queen Elizabeth Her Mother was of the Antient and Worthy Family of the Pelhams of Haland in Sussex called Lady Judick Daughter of Sir Thomas Pelham whose Ancestors were of great Note many hundred years ago meriting for Chivalry in the service of their King and Country an access of Honour which is yet born in their Arms. She was Born November 13. 1615. being the third Child after two Sons and the Eldest Daughter of her Parents who had besides her three Sons of whom the Right Honourable John Earl of Dover is yet living and three Daughters all eminent for Piety and all commendable endowments whereof two are with the Lord and one yet surviving Her Mother died leaving them very young yet she having the advantage of seven years more than the Eldest of her other Sisters supplied a Mothers care of them in their tender years And what influence her instructions advice and gracious example in all her comportment had upon them was very evident in their early proficiency in all Vertue and gracious imitation of so fair a Copy It pleased God who had made Choice of her for himself before all time Eccles 12.1 In seculo nobilis apud Deum cupit esse nobilior Auth. Epist ad Demetriadem Ab illustribus nasci Deo per spiritum renasci Nobilis genere sed multo nobilior sanctitate Hier. E. 27. ad Eustoch de Paula Nobilitas sola est atque unica virtus Juv. Sat. 8. Illa dives quae in Deo est dives Cypr. de hab Virg. Dan. 11.21 1 Kin. 21.20 25 Ephes 2.2 2 Tim. 2.26 Rom. 6.12 2 Pet. 2.19 Non est quod sibi aliquis de nobilitate generis blandiatur si ex meliore parte sit famulus Multò est indignius mente servire quam corpore Auth. Ep. ad Demetr to work her to a serious Choice of his waies in the best time To remember her Creator in the daies of her youth For even in those frail times which most others waste and ravel out in folly and vanity she received such an happy tincture of true Piety and the fear of God as never lost but ever increased its lustre till her last breath This advanced her pious Soul above all carnal priviledges of Nobility Ancestry and all terrene Glories derived from her eminent Progenitors to fix upon that which was only able to make her truly Noble and Glorious She was indeed Noble in the account of the World but not satisfied with that her desire was to be more Noble

Mary's Choice Declared in a SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL Of the Right Honourable Lady MARY WHARTON Late Wife of the Honourable Sir Thomas Wharton Knight of the Bath At Edlington in the County of York Together with a Narrative of the Religious and Holy Life and Death of that excellent Lady By P. W. Rector of Edlington Favour is deceitful and Beauty is vain but a Woman that feareth the Lord she shall be praised Prov. 30.31 Vivit post funera virtus London Printed by Robert White for Henry Mortlock and are to be sold at the White Hart in Westminster Hall and at the Phoenix in St. Paul's Church-yard 1674. Viro verè Honorabili omnigenà Virtute ac Pietate insigni Domino Thomae Wharton Equiti Ord. Balnei Patrono suo Colendissimo Nec non D. Philippo Wharton Armigero unico ejus optimae Spei Filio Unà cum Elizabetha ipsius uxore ac viri Generosissimi D. Richardi Hutton de Goldsborough Armigeri Filia unica Praecorditer adhuc lugentibus Conjugem dilectissimam Matrem desideratissimam Hanc qualemcunque Conciunculam Funebrem Et annexam Narratiunculam In perpetuae observantiae Testimonium Funebrem D. D. D. Iisdem omni Obsequio Devinctissimus P. W. To the Reader Curteous Reader I Have here given thee a rude draught of a very exact President presenting thee with an excellent Subject but very inartificially handled My acquaintance with this excellent Lady was very short she not living two years after I had the happiness to know her yet had that short time been more carefully improved thou hadst been entertained with much more than is here represented But this is the common mistake of us miserable mortals we set not that price we ought upon present Vertue nor are we so provident as to enjoy the benefit of it so fully as we might whilst we have it only when it is taken from us it leaves behind it a deep sense of our loss and want of what we had together with an helpless repentance that we made no better use of it whilst we had it Besides this disadvantage I who am the most unworthy of all her former acquaintances in the Ministry and most unable and unfit for such an undertaking yet am necessarily put upon this task none other being at hand with whom she hath in this short while so frequently conversed by reason of my Relation to her and near neighbourhood This Picture deserved an Apelles to have drawn it to the Life and great pity it is that so choice a piece should be exposed to thy view with such dull and dusky colours and by such an unskillful hand But I question not but that every pious and ingenuous Reader will from these hints represent to himself much more than I have or can express and by his larger apprehension supply my defects Thou hast the Sermon in the same Method wherein it was Preached without addition of any chief head only in the transcribing diverse passages are considerably enlarged partly from what was then prepared but could not be delivered in the short time allotted for such discourses there being also many Noble and Honourable Persons to solemnize her Funeral who had many miles to their home and partly from what did occur in the transcribing which I judged sutable to the Discourse in hand The Narrative is in good part such as was spoken at the Funeral but here very much enlarged not only upon the former accounts but mostly upon further information of many particulars whereof I had no knowledge before this was intended to be published I assure thee Reader it is not from any ambition the Authour hath to appear in Print that hath made this Discourse publick The conscience of his own insufficiency for such undertakings hath hitherto kept him within the bounds of privacy which if he now seem to have transgressed thy charity will rather impute it to some other urgent cause than his own choice It is but lost labour and actum agere to censure his weakness who himself hath done it before thee The best use thou canst make of what he hath done is seriously to apply what thou findest to concern thy self and to imitate the example here laid before thee choosing with her that good Part whereof our Saviour hath given assurance that it shall not be taken away from thee That both thou and I may make such use of what is here presented shall be the Prayer of The most unworthy in Gospel-Work P. W. Mary's Choice St. LUKE X. XLII But one thing is needful and Mary hath chosen that good Part which shall not be taken away from her THis Text is a part of our Saviour's Answer to Martha's expostulation with him for detaining her Sister from her assistance whilst all the Work lay upon her hands in making provision for him and his Disciples Lord saith she dost thou not take care c. Vers 40. Mary being so well employed sitting at his feet and hearing his Word ver 39. well might our Saviour have sharply rebuked Martha's obstreperous and unseasonable disturbance but with all mildness he only admonisheth her how much Mary's employment was to be preferred before hers Martha Martha Repetitio nominis est indicium dilectionis aut for●è movendae intentionis ut audiret attentiús Aug. de verb. Dom. Serm. 26. Aret. and others in loc saith he thou art careful and troubled c. Vers 41. Diverse Interpreters suppose here a vehement reprehension of Martha's over-much solicitude for things not necessary and her neglect of the one thing necessary which Mary had chosen But others suppose that the words do not so much import a reprehension of Martha's loving care as a defence of Mary who was better employ'd and therefore excusable Non opus reprehendit sed munus distinxit Aug. ubi supra Serm. 27. So also Ambr. in loc Simo● de Cass l. 9. c. 33. Bucer and others in loc though she did neglect inferiour business In this part of his Answer which is to be the Subject of our Discourse we may observe 1. An Admonition to Martha That one thing is needful 2. A commendation of Mary for her choice of that one thing Mary hath chosen c. In treating of the former of these we shall enquire by way of Explication 1. What this one thing is 2. How it is called one 3. In what respects it is said to be necessary I. For the first it is evident in the Text it self that this one thing is that good part which Mary had chosen and not that abstracted Monas or unity which some speak of but extra rem besides the Text as one saith opposed to multiplicity Calv. in loc nor yet that unity which is opposed to Schisme as St. Augustin seems to take it nor yet that little which may suffice for hospitable entertainment Aug. de verb. Dom. Serm. 26. Vid. Theophil Lyser Stella c. in loc excluding superfluity as some others expound