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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48732	A sermon at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Jane eldest daughter to His Grace, William, Duke of Newcastle, and wife to the Honourable Charles Cheyne, Esq, at Chelsey, Novemb. I, being All-Saints day by Adam Littleton ...	Littleton, Adam, 1627-1694.; Person of quality and neighbor in Chelsey.	1669 (1669)	Wing L2568; ESTC R21390	19,451	62

CAVENDISH Duke Of NEWCASTLE Sherlock sculp A SERMON AT THE FUNERAL OF THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE THE Lady JANE Eldest Daughter to his GRACE WILLIAM Duke of NEWCASTLE AND Wife to the Honourable CHARLES CHEYNE Esq At CHELSEY Novemb. 1. Being All-Saints day By Adam Littleton Priest LONDON Printed by Iohn Macock MDCLXIX PROV XXXI 30. Favour is deceitful and Beauty is vain but a Woman that feareth the Lord She shall be Praised WHO King Lemuel and his Mother mentioned in the first Verse of this Chapter were I shall not undertake to decide 'T is agreed on by most Interpreters that by Lemuel is intended Solomon who as Grotius observes was Octanominis had eight several Names given him in Scripture and by his Mother consequently is meant Bathsheba thought the same Grotius intimate too it might be Hezekiah himself who order'd the Collection of these Proverbs and his Mother Abijah the Daughter of Zechariah and that Lemuel was blanda matris Appellatio a made word of Kindness to sweeten her motherly Instructions In the Chapter that we may come orderly to the Text there are two main Parts to be observed I. The Queen Mothers Lesson to the young Prince her Son in the Nine first Verses II. The Character of a good Woman from the 10. verse to the end Which if it be but the continuation of the Mother's Lecture is then a Direction to him how to chuse a Wife but if we take it for a Composure of Solomon's then 't will be a dutiful Return of the Son to his Mother's Instructions in a large Commendation of her Wisdom and Care wherein he sets her forth as the Pattern of her Sex and pleats Laudum Corollam a Garland and Imperial Wreath of Praises for his Mother's Royal Head Be this Good Woman then in the History Bathsheba or Abijah or as the Popish Expositors turn it the Blessed Virgin be she in the Allegory the Church or any pious Soul it cannot be deny'd but that even Literally it belongs and may properly be apply'd to any Good Vertuous Woman whatsoever of the whole Sex who is here Commended through all the Letters of the Hebrew Christ-cross-row This being Carmen Alphabeticum in Laudes Bonae Foeminae an Alphabetical Poem in the Praise of a Good Woman And though the whole of the Description be Praise yet we may take a distinct notice of two Particulars contained in this Poem I. Her Properties or Vertues reckon'd up all along to the 28. verse II. Her Praise more Emphatically exprest in the very Close the four last Verses Her Vertues to give you a brief Summary of them are Her Conjugal Fidelity verse 11. Her Kindness and Constancy of Affection verse 12. Her Houswifery and Diligence v. 13. 19. Her Thrift and Menage verse 15 16. Her Industry and Assiduity vers 17 18. Her Charity and Liberality to the Poor verse 20. Her Providence and Forecast verse 21. Her Magnificence in her Furniture and Apparel verse 22. Her Reputation in Publick V. 23. 25. Her Traffick and Credit abroad in Selling v. 24. in Buying v. 16. and in both v. 14. Her Discretion and Obligingness in her Discourse v. 26. Her Care of Home and good Government of her Family v. 27. Her Praise to these many Vertues is threefold 1. At Home by her Husband and Children who do not speak out of Flattery but as having been constant Witnesses of her Vertuous Carriage ver 28. commending her in this form of words ver 29. Many Daughters have done Vertuously but Thou excellest them all 2. Pro Rostris solemnly out of the Pulpit in the words of the Text for so She shall be praised implies a solemn Commemoration of her Vertues and an Encomiastick Harangue upon her Person 3. For an everlasting Memorial of her throughout the whole Country where she lived common Fame shall do her that right in the last Verse Her own Works shall praise her in the Gates to wit among the Elders of the Land as 't is ver 23. among the Nobles and Rulers of the Kingdom Persons of the highest Place and greatest Quality Our present business is that Part of her Praise which is to be perform'd in this place whereto as I have always accounted it no mean Advantage of my life to have been known to a Person of so eminent a Worth and Goodness so I find my self somewhat enabled by that personal Knowledge for a fair discharge of the Duty of this Hour without being much beholden either to publick Report or private Information though the Whole almost of what I have to say will be That too which All that hear me will readily back with their Testimony To come to the business then the Vertuous Woman's Commendation here is expressed I. Negatively or if you will Comparatively Favour is deceitful and Beauty is vain II. Positively But a Woman that feareth the Lord She shall be Praised As if he had said Favour and Beauty are Idle Insignificant sorry mean toyish Things that deserve not serious Commendation at least are not fit to come in Competition with Vertue and Discretion and Piety which are the truly Laudable Qualities and make the only durable lasting Foundation to erect a Monument of Praise upon 'T is indeed the Humour and Custom of wanton loose Wits to Court the Beautiful to Commend the Fair and the Gay ones in their Sonnets and to make Elogies upon them while they are Living and Elegies when Dead but alas Those are poor Subjects in comparison of the Good and Vertuous and when those Poets Laurels and their Mistresses Praises too shall be blasted by Truth and withered by Time the Woman that fears the Lord the Pious Lady the Vertuous Matron shall be Praised on still and her Memory ever continue fresh and green We shall to clear our way for the proving Vertue the alone Praise-worthy thing shew the Deceit Vanity of those other two Candidates for Praise Favour and Beauty Favour in the Original Grace that is the gracefulness of Habit Gesture Gate Discourse and the Attractives of a hansom Carriage so as to gain Beholders Love 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 say the Septuagint the Complaisances of Conversation which do readily procure peoples Favour and good Opnion Ag in Beauty in the Symmetry and Proportion of Parts in the Feature and Complexion That which strikes the Eye and affects the Heart And yet both these deceitful and vain for these Reasons 1. As Frail and Subject to Decay whether in their own Nature or which is all one as to the Praise and Esteem of them in the Opinions of Men. The Fairest Face is as brittle as the Glass it views it self in and is at best thus but a Miroir of Beauty and when broken with Age or marr'd by Disease becomes a Looking-glass of Mortality The distinction betwixt Beauty and Deformity is quite lost in the Grave and many times before they come there Besides These are things that owe their Estimate to the Opinion of men and not to any Intrinsick