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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

be expected than of every pious Soul Mat. 6.6 2 Sam. 7.18 Dam. 6 1● whose care is not to be seen or heard in those retirements by any but their heavenly Father yet by providence something was found among her Papers written with her own hand upon a special occasion which may afford some discovery of her godly and devout frame of Spirit even in that heavenly and secret Duty The occasion was this That Reverend and holy man of God Mr. John Hudson now the Right Reverend Bishop of Elphin in Ireland Preaching upon that Text 1 Sam. 1.27 For this Child I prayed c. amongst other savoury passages observed That Mercies and Blessings obtained by Prayer will be sweet and that we should especially record special mercies which practice would both help our memory we being very apt to forget mercies Psal 106.7 and also strengthen our Faith Psal 85.1 2 3 c. vers 8 9. I will hear what God the Lord will speak c. Surely his Salvation is nigh them that fear him Her gracious Soul made such good use of that Sermon that she from that time resolved to keep a Record of such special mercies as it should please the Lord to vouchsafe her more especially such as were given in upon Prayer And in those Papers wherein they were found Recorded she thus bespeaks the Lord in her Prayers O my God I desire now to come before thee humbled in my Soul for my own baseness and filthiness from Head to Foot Every member of my Body being ready and inclined to every sin every faculty of my Soul being polluted and defiled with that foul and ugly sin wherein I was conceived and born And to aggravate this having received and still possessing more mercies and gracious dispensations from thee than I think ever any creature had But it is thy free-grace who canst as well give me a thankful heart as a receiving hand which I beg for his sake upon whose account only I come before thee and have this confidence to approach unto thee And here O Lord through thine assistance I desire to recount as I am able some of those innumerable mercies that I daily receive Then after an enumeration of many general mercies she thus proceeds Good God give me the Grace likewise that all this thy goodness may not be in vain upon my poor Soul I bless thy Name for the gracious presence of thy blessed Spirit at all times when I set my self before thee in earnest to seek thy face and favour in private and in especial at a Fast I kept and Sacrament I received when I was left all alone at Wobourn when I received much comfort c. Then again reckoning up many particular mercies received at the Lords hand upon her Prayers to him for her Husband and Son amongst which she forgets not affectionatly to mention the good means of Grace and Salvation they had lived under and the contented peaceable plentiful chearful condition they had enjoyed ever since they came together But these saith she are but Ones of thousands that I have and do enjoy O give me to live in some measure answerable to this goodness of thine c. After this manner hath she Recorded the many special mercies deliverances blessings which she her Husband Son and Family had received noteing the day and month of the year And the whole contexture is in the same tenour of Prayer and Praises ever desiring of the Lord that he would give her to live the life of Faith and Thanksgiving which was her frequent expression But the particular mercies conferred upon her self and her Relations were not the only Subject of her thankful praises So great was her affection to the Church of God and to her dear native Country that publick blessings were also sound Recorded in her secret Devotions Thus when it pleased God to heal the breaches of this distracted Nation by the happy Restauration of his Royal Majesty she thus expresseth her deep sense of that wonderful change But now O God I am confounded and know not what to say nor which way to begin to bless and praise by great Name for thy infinite preservations of deliverances to and blessed restauration of our dear King and his Family from their sad banished and distracted condition which they have long lain under to their own Inheritance And all this is beyond what we could have asked or thought to be without blood or obligation to strangers or any thing but thy own hand which is for ever to be magnified and adored for this great Work for which I beseech thee to give me and all thine to live the life of Faith and Thanksgiving to lay our selves in the dust and to be low in our own eyes that thou alone maist be exalted for these great and wonderful things that thou hast done in our daies for preserving them in the true Religion in the midst of diverse temptations and keeping them from diverse dangers of Soul and Body for all which let our Souls bless thy great Name This may suffice to give some aim whereby to measure her private Devotions which could not otherwise be discovered but by her own Papers occasioned as is before declared But by this it may appear how serious she was in her Meditation of Gods loving-kindness to her and her Relations in every concernment with which she was so exceedingly affected that she could not forbear to speak of it in her private discourses with her friends In the short time of our acquaintance how frequently have I heard her with tears of joy express her deep apprehensions of Gods gracious Providence in their outward prosperity beyond her hopes admiring his blessings according to his holy promise heaped upon them she knew not how owing his hand and disowning all their own care and endeavour as of no signification in reference to the greatness of even outward mercies received This wrought her Soul to the highest content with that Estate which it pleased God to place her in which had it been much meaner would yet no doubt have been acceptable to her thankful heart which ever took its measure from the consideration of Gods bountiful providence in administring blessings sutable to her condition and not from any ambitious emulation of others grandeur Such as is said was her more private converse with God What was more obvious to the eyes of men was very exemplary whether we consider her deportment in the publick Congregation or in her Family duties In the publick Prayers in the Church as also in the Family her Posture outward gesture and voice was ever most decent humble and reverent with all evidences of a broken contrite serious and servent spirit expressing greatest affection with such diligent and undistracted attention without the least shew of Ostentation that whosoever observed her deportment could not but conclude 1 Sam. 1.12 13. Sancti sine voce cl●mant ad Deum Inspirante Spiritu sancto apud Deum per

required by God either by way of recompence for their pains who laboured and watched for her soul Heb. 12.13 as she was directed by Gods Word 1 Thes 5.12 13. 1 Cor. 9.11 Gal. 6.6 For she had learned with holy David to prefer the Law of Gods mouth before worldly Riches or by way of compassion where there was real and not pretended necessity She was perswaded that God required her to help when he was pleased to present her with such an object of Charity But then did she judge she had got the fittest object when this necessity was accompanied with sincere Piety Omnibus nos debitores fecit communis humanitas sed fidelibus vinculum arctius spiritualìs cognationis quam Dominus inter nos sacravit Calv. in Gal. 6.10 according to the Apostles prescript Gal. 6.10 As we have opportunity let us do good to all men especially to them who are of the houshold of Faith There she accounted her Charity most due But she was not only careful to make right choice of the Party whom she ought to relieve but also of that way and means whereby she might do them most good and her Charity make for the greatest advantage The Hungry she would Feed and procure Cloaths for the Naked and comfort the Sick with such things as she had That of Job 29.13 might fitly be applied to her The blessing of those that were ready to perish came upon her and she caused the Widdows heart to sing for joy She was the poor Orphans Mother taking some of them into her own Family Ita singulis suam pecuniam dividebat ut singulis necessarium erat H●eron Ep. 27 Job 31.16 others were kept to School others were placed forth as Apprentices with her Money For some poor Families she would purchase Cows that the Children might have Milk or what other waies she could devise whereby to help poor and decayed people Thus she with-held not the poor from their desire nor would she cause the eyes of the Widdow to fail Nor was this her practice for a fit or seldom but constant and continued till her dying day she was not weary of well-doing nor did she fail to the last leaving order even at her End for further distribution of the remainder yet undisposed of No doubt but she now enjoyeth a plentiful Crop of that blessed Seed and her Works follow her Such was her converse with others who were not her Family Relations What her deportment was towards them I shall speak the less because I cannot say enough She that thus walked with God and whose Conversation towards all others was such as is before declared must needs be most benigne and respective to all her Relations To mention her goodness towards each of them particularly would but too much grate upon their grieved spirits and renew their yet fresh sorrows for so great a loss This I may presume to say that no Husband could lose a more loving respective obedient and in each regard a better Wife and Friend No Child a more tender loving careful Mother No Servant a more loving meek provident indulgent Lady that could more desire and endeavour their good And this not only in reference to their body and outward man but with more especial respect to their Souls and spiritual state It was ever her great desire and careful endeavour that all who were near her should serve God with her and that she might ever find them in the fear of God Nor could any thing more grieve her than at any time to see any of them offend or sin against God As to her carriage in all things towards her Husband and his reciprocally toward her I have never observed in any married pair a greater mutual complacency than betwixt them two They lived together as if they had but one Heart and one Will in all things that which was pleasing to either was ever most eligible to the other Yea who ever observed any difference of opinion in them or the least discontent or ever heard any contest between them whose only strife was whether of them should more please and gratifie the other But instead of larger reports of her gracious and loving respects to her nearest Relations these few notes following may suffice to declare her affection to them and care for them which I have transcribed out of her own Papers prepared five years ago she having long laboured under an Hectick distemper and which she delivered with her own hands one to her Husband and the other to her only Son the day before her Death Some part of the Paper to her Husband being dated Feb. 20. 1667. is as followeth My dear Heart Sir Thomas Wharton OVR good and gracious God will be thy great support and comfort in all conditions and will make up all Relations without whom none could have given any contentment We have by his mercies lived more happy daies than almost any but changes must come to us as well as to all others Therefore let us be thankful for all our good we have enjoyed and be willing and ready to give up what is dearest to us when he calls who will do nothing to hurt us being our most loving Father in Christ who has bought us with his precious blood This I believe Lord help my unbelief and give me to live the life of Faith and Thanksgiving and prepare me for his Will whether Life or Death I am very infirm but heart whole c. Then making mention of her only Son Of whom saith she I need not desire your taking care for he is yours as much as mine and I know you love him c. I would fain have him much in your company or under your eye Though I know his Youth and your Gravity will not altogether sute yet I hope you will allow him grains and he yield you all obedience of Love as well as Fear I shall need to say nothing of his Marriage for I think we both agree in desiring he may meet in the first place with Piety Vertue and a good Extraction And if any Wealth or Beauty attend upon these let it come they are not ill Servants though unfit to be uppermost in our desires or esteem If God give his blessing a little will be enough if not enough will be too little to satisfie the covetous desire from which good God deliver him I had rather his Education might instruct him to use that little be will have well than to covet more to spend ill The Paper to her Son followeth verbatim My dear Philip I Pray God bless you and he who has raised you from many illnesses and weaknesses raise your heart and life to some degree answerable to these great mercies and all other which I am not able to reckon up I am at this time I praise God well and have no illness on me but grow Old and infirm often which makes me desire to leave something in charge with you which you may