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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

rebuilt with much more Glory Magnificence and Splendor returns into it with more Pleasure than ever he had in it before so the Soul will rejoyce much more in it s repaired Fabrick than ever before during the time of this mortal Life especially upon finding it purged entirely from Sin the fretting Leprosy in the Walls of it which could never be cleansed but by the breaking of it down And probably there will be a mighty Addition to this Pleasure by the Soul 's sensible uniting with it or joyning to the Body with a Perception of doing so The first Union that was made between them was to the Soul insensibly performed by the meer Hand and Power of God in the first Formation of the Body and so the Felicity of that Uniting was never understood But at the Resurrection the Body being raised again and most gloriously formed and the Soul coming down from Heaven and knowing to what end it descends will with a strange Pleasure sensibly enter again into its old Habitation repaired and made glorious And being raised from our Graves with this Pleasure of the Reunion of Soul and Body we shall be conducted to Christ's Right-hand and hear such Words as these spoken to us by Him the Judg and Lord of all Come ye Blessed of my Father inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the Foundation of the World And Well done good and faithful Servant enter you into the Joy of your Lord. When the Ungodly shall hear the Words of the Curse more terrible than the Thunder on Mount Sinai Depart from me ye Cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels And then together with all the Church of God and the holy Angels we shall Souls and Bodies united together never more to be separated ascend into the highest Heaven and enjoy throughout an Eternity the fullest most refined and most agreeable Happiness that our Natures are capable of which if we can believe depending upon the Verity of the Scriptures we must acknowledg our Labour is not in vain And why should we make any doubt of it Have we not all the Evidence we can have of this matter The Scriptures have the Attestation of multitudes of Miracles performed and Prophecies fulfilled They have the Signature of God also upon them in the Holiness of the Matter and the Majesty of the Stile in many places never Book spake like this Book The Matters of Faith in it are so high the Mysteries so grave and sublime the Precepts so holy and pious the Promises so agreeable and refreshing to Minds that are mortified and purged from Vice the Threatnings so solemn severe and just the Examples so glorious and the whole so admirable that if we consider it we cannot imagine the Author to be other than God who is most holy just and good There being then no doubt but that the holy Scriptures will be in all Points verified and in particular in the Promise of future Happiness consisting in a glorious Resurrection and a blessed Immortality as the Reward of true Holiness Let us be perswaded to comply with God in the things he requireth of us And let us manage our Lives according to our Christian Profession and our Vowes in Baptism and since And let us hearken no more to the Charms of Sense the Voice of a tempting World and the Whispers of the Devil our great Enemy enticing us to Sin and to abide in evil and unholy Ways and Practices But let us deny Ungodliness and worldly Lusts and live soberly righteously and godly in this present World putting on the Armour of Light and Righteousness on the Right-hand and on the Left And let us in earnest make Religion the great Business of our Lives believing God's Promises and expecting this most glorious Reward But some may possible object in this manner We have heard the manifold Duties of Religion and have sometimes considered of the great Reward proposed But we find to our Discouragement that Religion is a Wisdom too high for us and the Practice of it a Province too difficult It is a way too strait and a Gate too narrow a Yoke too pressing a Burden too heavy a severe Warfare a tedious Travel It is impossible to comply with it and if we would endeavour the Practice of it we cannot effect it It were more easy to us to dig in the Mines or serve in the Gallies then to break off our Sins and live a holy Life And therefore urge us not to attempt Impossibilities My Answer to this Objection is That it is a Mistake and that what is required is through Divine Assistance and Grace very possible and certainly practicable The Difficulties are great but there is a Grace given to Believers that surmounts them all that levels the Mountains fills up the Valleys makes the crooked places streight and the rough places even that opens the blind Eyes of Mens Minds and softneth hard Hearts and subdues rebellious Wills and regulates disordered Affections that enlightens and enables to will and to do and out of Weakness makes strong and calls things that are not as if they were and raises dead Souls to Life Therefore let it not be said It is impossible to be Religious But let Men beg the Grace that will make it possible And never let it be said it is impracticable when Multitudes though few in Comparison of greater Multitudes have lived in the practice and exercise of Holiness A Cloud of Witnesses as they are called Heb. 12.1 have gone before us in the practice of these things though Men of like passions with us The Patriarchs Prophets Apostles Martyrs and many others have given us the Pattern and Proof of all this Piety and Godliness Some of all sorts have sincerely effectually and successfully engaged in it viz. some Kings Princes and Emperours as David Jehosaphat Hezekiah c. some Generals of Armies as Joshua and Gideon c. some Officers of State as Joseph Obediah c. some Learned Rich and Honourable and some Poor Mean Illiterate and Despifed Perfons so that none of us of what quality or condition soever can say Religion and Godliness is Impracticable by Persons of our Condition and Circumstances in the World Having then Patterns of Piety in all Ranks and Conditions of Men let us set these Examples before us and asking Grace and imploring Aids from God through the Mediator Christ Jesus let us imitate them and be holy as They were in all manner of Conversation And besides these Ancient Examples we have some in this present Age by whom it is evident that Godliness in the Life and Power and Exactness of it is really practicable We have now before us That which is sufficient utterly to silence the Objection I mean The Remains and Memory of this Eminent LADY and Excellent CHRISTIAN whose great Piety was the Glory of this Place And whose Recess from amongst us though She died full of dayes hath filled many Hearts with a passionate Grief