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