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love_n	affection_n	heart_n	lord_n	4,353	5	3.5870	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16522	A sermon preached at Flitton in the countie of Bedford at the funerall of the Right Honourable Henrie Earle of Kent, the sixteenth of March 1614. By I.B. D.D.	Bowle, John, d. 1637.	1615 (1615)	STC 3435; ESTC S106815	24,390	50

had determined his right and title his owne heart was Chaunceler to quench the fire of contention Iust hee was to keepe the Countrey free from the sonnes of Belial A peace-maker hee was to compromise and to end vnchristian controuersies Iust he was and feared not the gratest Louing he was and contemned not the least I can remember that when I was brought vp at the feete of this Gamaliel that euery Thursday which is now by Gods direction contrary to your first resolution the day of his memoriall hee rode to a neighbour-Towne of Amptill where he first frequented Gods Temple to heare a Sermon and to offer vp a sacrifice to God and then consulted with the Iustices and Officers of trust for the peace of the Countrie There might you see euery Thursday as at the Poole of Bethesda the Orphant and the widdow the poore and afflicted seeking and finding of comfort There the Rec●sant and ill-affected subiect were conuented examined perswaded and if all would not serue restrained from infecting the credulous multitude So that Gods Religion was countenanced the oppressed were succoured the darnell was seuered the peace and ciuilitie of the Country by such a solemne and ordinarie meeting was maintained If I speake false accuse me If I speake truth testifie with me for many of you know the substance when I remember onely the shadow For his Oeconomicall vertues as he was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Lord of a Family three things are obserued by the Philosopher First the choise of a wife Next the entertainment of seruants The third the care of our estate that wee bee not hurtfull but helpefull vnto others The Wife is the first for she either is our helper or our tempter our good or our euill Angell But before I can speake a word of her of whom I learned first to speake I must make Saint Austens confession Pudet me illius aetatis in qua me vixisse non memini I am ashamed of my infancy amongst you in which I doe not remember that euer I liued But could I remember what some of you haue told me whom I am bound to beleeue I should heere giue publike thanks to God that hath called me to his Ministery vpon this occasion Collater ally to honour her memory who for her recreation vouchsafed to instruct me in the Alphabet and elements of learning I beseech you giue way a little to my affectionate thankfulnesse if I interueyne our Earles honours with his wiues vertues Her first lifes blood was deriued from ancient Gentrie but her seruice in Court her excellence of body and graces of mind transplanted her into the stock of more ancient Nobilitie Our Earle found her the Widow of that great Earle Edward of Derby found and a while kept her a most beloued louing gracious compassionate religious and noble Lady whose vntimely death without issue deuided a paire of honourable Turtles deuided their bodies but not their soules 34. yeeres hee spent as a mourner of her Funerals deuided their bodies but not their loues for though her body lyes buryed at great Gaddesden which necessitie did enforce yet all that Iacob could doe for Rachel he hath done for her in ioyning her piller vpon his owne sepulchre making one indiuiduall monument for them both in this Chappell to testifie to all the world that happy vnion of which neither life nor death could make a disiunction Such was his Lady such was their loue I would to God the discontentments of great Lords and Ladies did not make it remarkeable What a shame is it when our honourable mariages are like that of Pompey with Iulia of Anthony with Octauia which are not made to vnite hearts but houses nor to ioyne affections but factions the issue being as fatall as the beginning was vnfaithfull But I had rather powre foorth prayers to God for reformation then spend vnregarded words of reprehension Let it suffice that they there lye together in one graue of whom you cannot iudge whether their honour were greater or their loue The next thing in a family is the entertainement of seruants which this Honourable person knew best to chuse because himselfe had been a seruant Though hee was borne of a most Noble family yet being a younger brother as the vniust yet vsuall custome of our Country is hee was compelled by necessitie to serue in a Noble Familie but after was preferred to the seruice of the late Queene of happy memory In both which he gained such experien●e that hee knew with Iacob how to reforme his houshold that no Idolatrous Baalite no Idle-bellied Cretian no prophane Esau no Ruffian Lamech no blasphemous Rabsache no inordinate persen should by his will and knowledge shrowd their abominable vices vnder his Honourable vertues Hee well knew the sharpe speech of Aristippus who replied to a wonderer of a great traine of seruants At plures muscas in culina hee had not saith the Philosopher so many seruants in his Hall as he had flies in his Kitchen Seruants who are fed like great horses onely for pompe and shew are vsually irreligious and vnprofitable creatures But those seruants whom hee intertained those he trusted accounting it a French lightnesse to intertaine a few Pyes and to change them as often as their Liueries His ancient seruants fit for a setled and an Honorable house sufficient for their number and extraordinarie for their qualities whereof some had continued with him tenne yeeres some twentie some thirtie some fortie yeeres those according to the meanes and measure of his estate he rewarded at his death Others who serued him lesse time hee honoured either with a Ring of remembrance or comforted with halfe a yeeres wages for their present maintenance Generally he commended them all to his Honourable Brother that howsoeuer they had lost a louing Lord yet they might find a Noble Master It was a great part of his care at death that his seruants might be prouided for the meanes of life I must not forget to conclude this point with the remembrance of another Legacy Our Noble Earle did so remember his owne seruants as he did not forget Gods poore seruants 50. pounds he allotted by his will to be distributed to Christs brethren to feed them to clothe them or in such manner to comfort them as their necessitie required and his brothers iudgement should order that as his soule was to bee comforted by the blood of the Lambe So as Iob speaketh the loynes of the poore might bee warmed with the fleece of his sheepe The third point was the care of his estate which as he publisheth in the Record of his Will and Testament he found almost ruinated by the vaine prodigalitie of Richard Earle of Kent He knowing therefore that Honour without meanes is but a glorious burden but the Tower of Babel the seminary of confusion he made a carefull frugalitie the fuell of his continuall hospitalitie Great things by prouidence are attained by prodigalitie ruinated You reade