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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52013	A sermon in commemoration of the truely vertuous and religious gentlewoman, Mris. Elizabeth Dering wife of Mr. Charles Dering ... she departed this life at Pluckley in Kent the 26 day of July, 1640 / by Robert Marriot.	Marriott, Robert, 1608?-1689.	1641 (1641)	Wing M715; ESTC R28807	26,821	49

A SERMON IN COMMEMORATION Of the truely Vertuous and Religious Gentlewoman Mris ELIZABETH DERING WIFE OF Mr. CHARLES DERING Yongest Sonne of Sir ANTHONY DERING Knight She departed this life at Pluckley in Kent the 26. day of July 1640. By Robert Marriot Vicar of Lenham in Kent PSALME 116.15 Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his Saints LONDON Printed by E. P. for N. Bourne at the South entrance of the Royall Exchange 1641. TO THE WORSHIPFVLL AND HIS MUCH Honored friend Master CHARLES DERING SIR No triall doth so illustrate the truth and power of that Religion we professe as doth our patient and cheerefull suffering of adversity No adversity doth so sensibly affect us as doth the parting with our intimatest entirely beloved friends No friends are comparable to such as are united to our selves by the bond of Conjugal affection like Nathan's Ewe Lamb eating of our own bread 2 Sam. 12. ● drinking of our owne Cup and lying in our bosome Now these Circumstances as they doe the more aggravate your losse so will they the more renowne your vertues if you can so farre master your passions as to beare them moderately which you may the better doe by following S. Pauls counsell in this case to his Thessalonians 1 Thess 4.13 Bee not ignorant concerning those that are asleepe that yee sorrow not as others which have no hope Where the Apostle doth not say peremptorily sorrow not for that was with the Stoicks to deny you naturall affection but sorrow not without hope least with the Hereticks you deny your selfe a Resurrection The spirit of God directs you to a meane in mourning which will best sute with your sables that is to weepe as if you wept not 1 Cor. 7.30 So you shall shew your love by your teares and your faith by your moderation And truly Sir amongst the most I know you have least cause to exceed in sorrowes for the death of your deare consort if you please seriously to consider how that nothing deplorable or grievous hath befallen her more than what hath commonly happened to beleevers while in the meane time God wonderfully manifested his goodnesse in sundry remarkable mercies towards her which hee hath ofttimes withheld from many of his choysest children That she dyed that she dyed young that she dyed a stranger in this Kingdome that she was troubled with some doubtings before and that she hath left you destitute since her death as it is all you can object to minister matter of griefe unto you so let me assure you that there is no particular of it either new or strange 1. As for death Debemur morti nos nostraque It is as good a debt as any the world knowes for the levying whereof there is an extent upon all mankind and a statute enacted primo Adami Heb 9 27. and recorded by S. Paul Statutum est omnibus semel mori It is appointed for all men once to dye Hence homo a common name to all men is ex humo from the ground and Adam signifies but Red Earth of which both the Prince and the Peasant are alike Elemented And though there be diversities amongst us while wee live some like Nabuchadnezer have golden heads and some like Chrysostome have golden tongues yet we all stand luteis pedibus on seet of clay for so sayes the Prophet Dan. 2.32.33 What man is he that shall not see death 2. And though long life be accounted a blessing yet is not a short life to bee esteemed a curse since God conferres length of dayes to some sayes S. Austin to shew that they are his gift and denyes them to other some that we may know how that he hath better gifts than this yet cannot he by this deny all be said more to breake promise with his people when for a long life on earth he payes with an eternall life in heaven then Herod with Herodias if promising but the halfe he had given her the whole Kingdome 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 whom God loves hee dy's young said Menander God whom hee makes most account of those he soonest taketh said Euripides and Nazianzen tells us hoc nobis adfert longius vitae spatium quòd plura mala partim videmus partim perpetramus partim sustinemus This is all the benefit of long life to see more evill suffer more sorrow and commit more sin 3. Nor was she the onely stranger who departed this life remote from her native Countrey Adam her first Father by generation Heb 11.9 1 Pet 3.6 and Abraham her faithfull Father by regeneration whose daughter she was made by doing well sayes S. Peter dyed both in a strange land So that if you begin with David to complaine and say she was a stranger Psal 39.12 you must add moreover as were all her Fathers then the strangenesse will be taken away and with it your complaint also Trees transplanted ofttimes become more fruitfull and so did she whom God perceiving to beare so well hath removed into his Celestiall Paradise where being planted as saith the Psalmist in the house of the Lord she shall for ever florish in the Courts of our God Ps 92.13 and grow greene to eternity 4. And as for her doubtings they may the more confirme your assurance of her happinesse for the Divell never makes warre against those of his owne kingdome who are as securely his owne as temptation can make them those whom he tempts to doubts and despayre are such whom himselfe doubts and despayres of Luke 11.21 Our Saviour tells you while the strong man armed keeps the house the things which hee possesseth are in peace but when Satan assaults the Fort without it is a certaine signe hee is not yet within nor hath any command of that Castle which he holds not in quiet obedience 5. Besides you are not the first in this kind of losse Gen. 23.2 Gen. 35.19 thus Abraham was forced to forgoe his Sarah thus Iacob his Rachel others have had their share in the like sorrowes and company is some comfort though it be in misery Demonax the Philosopher seeing one immoderatly to bewayl the death of a friend he wished him in a great multitude to looke about if he could find one man exempted from the like accident which fayling to doe community in the case returned him better composed And as these arguments are prevalent to mit igate your griefe so are there others as equivalent to promote your comfort How many have there beene of Gods deare children who have gone out of the world as Israel went out of Egypt in hast having their lives snatched from them by the hand of sudden death while God gave unto your beloved wife time of repentance and preparation How many whose Sun of saving assurance hath even set in a cloud of doubts and distrust full thoughts for ought that hath beene visible in our Horizon while God restored her to the