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A Funeral elegy upon the much lamented death of the right honourable and eminently vertuous lady and exemplary pattern of piety, charity and humility, Mary, Dowager Countess of Warwick who died April 12, 1678.
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1678
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A Funeral ELEGY Upon the much lamented Death of the Right Honourable and Eminently Vertuous Lady and exemplary Pattern of Piety Charity and Humility MARY Lady Dowager Countess of WARWICK who died April 12. 1678. IF Tears could ought prevail I 'de weep amain And wash my blubbred Eyes in brinish Rain Though wet Wings cannot fly aloft nor soar Yet ardent Love may make one Poet more And him constrain this once to make a Verse As Homage due to this Renowned Herse And him not us'd a Poet now to turn To pay a Tribute to this Sacred Vrn Her Parents Husband both were Noble She By Birth was Noble and Affinity But Divine Graces crown'd her high Degree Much more ennobling her Nobility Though she descended from a Noble Stem Yet Grace she valued as Her chiefest Gem. Her New Birth she esteem'd more than the Gold Of Ophir or ought else a hundred fold On Earth she liv'd in Heaven For her Heart With MARY made choice of the better Part. She oft walkt forth into her Wilderness And in Her walking found happy success She walkt with God Shee 'd observation make How often to Her Soul God comfort spake Even in a Wilderness God made his Word Good to Her Joys and Comforts there t' afford In Her Hearts Cloister she took many a turn And with Seraphick Love to Christ did burn She lov'd God's Word it was Her Hearts delight And in the Law of God both Day and Night This Blessed Saint spent time in Meditation God's Service was her Joy and Recreation Such as fear'd God and honoured the King She prized more than any Earthly Thing In all Times to own such She did not fear In whom the Image of God did appear Publick Assemblies She frequented such As faithful Preachers were She honour'd much Her Charity shin'd forth in Word and Deed To such as were in Troubles and in Need. Another Dorcas she was doing good She cloath'd the Naked gave the Hungry Food The Sick She visited in their condition Was Alm'ner Surgeon and Physician Her Closet-Cordials Purse and tender Heart Were opened to give ease to any Smart Of such as were afflicted and in grief Her care was quick to contribute Relief How she lov'd Learning many Learned tell To whom Her signal Bounty did excel She labour'd to prevent or heal all Strife She was a Grand Peace-maker all her life Humility was Orient as the Crown Of all Her Graces a Pearl of Renown Goodness and Greatness met in high degree Before Her Honour was Humility Sarah was prais'd who call'd her Husband Lord Her practice with that Princess did accord In Health and Sickness as a faithful Wife She shew'd her great Love to preserve his Life Like Hannah it was this choice Saints desire Delight and Practice often to retire Into Her Closet and pour out her Heart To God who to Her Comforts did impart There She enjoy'd Communion with the Lord In Her Recess more than Earth can afford Such Time so spent in secret She ' steem'd more Than any Riches or the Indian Oar. She fasted Wept prai'd on her bended Knee And so prepared for Eternity For the Lord's Supper she set time a-part To Hear and Read and Pray and search her Heart To which she joined Fasting to prepare Her Heart for that Great Feast beyond compare What shall I add more E'ven all 's too little Though I 'le not vary from the Truth one tittle Faith Hope and Meekness Prudence Charitie Rendred Her Nobler than Her high Degree The Poor will miss Her as a daily Friend Who did Relief unto them often send Poor Scholars whom she did at School maintain Who valued Her Life as their best Gain Will now much miss Her Bounty and Her Love For few there are who like to Her will prove Servants will miss Her Love and Bounty great And good Advice which she did oft repeat For their Eternal Good She did afford Choice means for all Her House to serve the Lord. At present and before she did maintain Choice Chaplains in Her House hoping to gain Souls unto Christ Her Hearts desire was free To go to Heav'n with a great Companie The Poorest had access unto Her She Shew'd Candor and sweet Affability She studi'd Scriptures much and Her own Heart Her rare Experiences she did impart To Ministers and others By such Talk So useful they might be stirr'd up to walk Closer with God and order their ways right As in their walks having God in their sight Before the Sun was up she often gave Her Morning Thoughts to God And She did crave God's Grace and Blessing And so the whole Day She did more comfortably pass away She liv'd desir'd and now 's lamented much I wish surviving Ladies were all such She 's now a Saint in Glory freed from pain What 's Loss to many is her chiefest Gain She told some Ladies Though I love you well Yet Heaven all Earthly Comforts doth excel Heav'n I prepare for and Heav'n is my Home From thence to you I 'le never wish to come What she believ'd and hop'd for she doth see And shall enjoy to all Eternity Sabbaths on Earth she ' bserv'd with much delight In them she had of Heav'n some glimps and sight The Blessed Trin'ty her Souls happiness She seeth fully in eternal bliss And keeps one everlasting Sabbath there Where not the least disturbance shall appear Now she knows more of God than any Man On Earth though greatly Learned ever can Here in a Glass darkly now Face to Face In Heaven she fully sees that Glorious Place She sees God as he is immediately And now is blest to perpetuity Ye Living lay these things to heart prepare To meet with Christ in whom all Treasures are Like the Wise Virgins have not Oil to buy When Christ shall come But with them have supply Of Oil of Graces Live prepar'd to die So when you die you 'l live eternally Prepare to follow this Blest Saint in Grace Who now triumphs in the most Holy Place Where Praises she and Allelujahs sings To the most Holy God the King of Kings Leave weeping for Her who in Heaven doth dwell Weep rather that you cannot parallel Her Vertues And let Writers pen her Story And her Record who was The Ladies Glory Let her good Life live in you For though dead She speaks that you in her foot-steps should tread From Ev'ls to come in Mercy 's took away She 's freed from Sighs and Sorrows in that day Now she enjoys an Everlasting Rest Wherewith God's People shall be ever blest She now inthroned with the Powers Divine Shall in the Spangled Ceeling ever shine By an Admirer and Honourer of Her Excellent Vertues London Printed for Tho. Parkhurst at the Bible and 3 Crowns at the lower end of Cheap-side 1678. 106. With Allowance * Earl of Cork ‖ Earl of Warwick Luke 10.42 Gen. 5.24 Gen. 6.9 Hos 2.14 * Ambulavi in Claustro Cordis mei Bern. Psal 1.2 1 Pet. 2.17 Ephes 4.24 Acts 9.36 Prov. 15.33 1. Pet. 3.6 1 Sam. 1.13 Jos 24.15 1 Cor. 13.12 1 Joh. 3.2 Col. 2.3 Mat. 25.4 Isa 5. n Isa 35.10 Heb. 4.9