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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

that it may be both Brief and Useful and That according to our former Method where we treated of the Fear of God which is here given as Her Character First as to Principle the Candour of Her Disposition the Sweetness of her Nature and the Evenness of her Temper whereof throughout her whole Life she gave Innumerable Demonstrations And certainly Good Nature however some Ill-natur'd People who would pass for the most strictly Religious may declaim against It and all Morality is the best Seed-plot for Piety and all Vertue to thrive in the Kindliest Soil for the Fruits of the Spirit Meekness Ioy Patience Gentleness Long-suffering Loving kindness c. which were abundantly seen in all the Instances of her Conversation Now because much of This may seem to be Extracted from the Parents and by Lineal Descent to be derived from the Family For Fortes creantur Fortibus Boni Bonis Vertues and good Qualities likely run in a Blood I must so far mention Her Pedigree as to give the True Blazonry of her Vertues She was Eldest Daughter to His Grace the Duke of Newcastle a Person of no less Excellence in His Merit and in His Nature then he is in his Title One that has been the most Illustrious Example in all the three Nations of an Acting and Suffering Loyalty To him besides His other vast Deserts the World ow'd this Excellent Lady who being powerfully inclin'd by Instinct and Duty and Choice to be like Her Noble Father did so Naturally Resemble Him and so Affectionately Imitate Him that She represented the lively Characters of his Soul as well as Feature Nor must I omit her Pious Mother a Lady of most Exemplary Charities from whom She received the first Elements of her Vertuous Education and Her Noble Grand-Mother the Lady Ogle whose Daring she was who to this Lady IANE did in her life and at her death give particular Testimonies of an extraordinary Affection which were often gratefully remembred and repeated by Her From these Advantages of Birth that Natural Principle of Goodness flow'd which being Inlarged by the Moral accessions of Noble Breeding and Impregnated with Holy Exercises and the Influences of God's good Spirit stream'd into all the Faculties of her Soul by which she became the Absolute Governess of Her own Mind She had that Command of Her Passions that it might be questioned whether she had Any Anger and She were so utter Strangers that the very Expressions of Dislike from Her were Obliging Greatness and Goodness of Mind kept her Soul always in an equal Poise so that she could never fancy an Injury or an Ill meaning from any one or be upon any Provocation Exceptious She knew her self so Innocent and Good that she deserv'd no Ill and therefore suspected none and withal She was of so Generous and Great a Spirit that unkindnesses if intended could not reach Her So that as on the one hand no body she believ'd would wrong Her if they could so on the other she resolv'd they should not if they would Her soft yielding Compliance back'd with Magnanimity was like polish'd Marble smooth and strong She was seated above the clouded Atmosphere of Worldly Joys and Troubles even while she was Here and had wrought Her self to a perfect Indifference and Vnconcernedness in all things but Her Service of God and Kindness to her Friends She had no Value for the World nor Over-value for Her self who was one of the Best Parts of it For as Her Worth had set Her Even with the Greatest so Her Humility plac'd Her familiarly with the Meanest and yet this attended with so natural a Becomingness that her very Humility exalted her and her Condescensions made her the more Venerable and Highly Esteemed Where the Passions are kept in this Aw and Order the Superiour Faculties being clear and undisturb'd must needs exercise all their Functions aright She took when Young special delight in her Father's Excellent Composures And she hath left in Writing a considerable Stock of Excellent ones of Her own ever spending the time that best pleased Her with her Pen. Above all Reading of good Discourses and making of Pious Meditations were Her chief and daily Imployment to which and to Her Devotions she was so Constant that as she hath fill'd some Volumes with the One so for the Other from her Youth to her late Death-bed she fail'd not of Prayer as I am Informed thrice a day and if Morning or Noon hapned to be omitted She would make amends at Night and then to be sure even that Account Herein lay her solid Satisfaction in Conversing thus with God that She lookt upon all Occasions that Interrupted That as Impertinent and Uneasie and if She had any Quarrel to this Place 't was this the Multitude of Formal Visits which she could not avoid receiving from London and returning that took off her time from these Spiritual Exercises This as to her Principle Then as to the Emanations of It to the Eye and Observation of the World for we have as yet been but in the Closet In her Maiden-state Of her Infant-years which were spent at Welbeck a place that bears the Proportion and Resemblance of a Court under the Tuition of her Father and Mother we have already spoken We shall now treat of her more Adult Vertues What Courage and Loyalty as the right Daughter of a General as the Valiant Woman here spoken of did she shew in keeping the Garrison'd House of her Father where she was left with One of her Noble Sisters as a Sharer in her Vertues and the Misfortunes of Ill times the Other being before that Time Happily bestow'd amongst the Horrid Circumstances of War till taken by the Enemy and there made their Prisoners What Gallantry of Charity at the Retaking it by the King's Forces when She became Petitioner to save her Iaylor's life whose Treatments though not Barbarous yet had been much short of such Civilities as to Persons of their Age Tenderness and Quality were due What Patience and Magnanimity in all the Disasters of Her Loyal Family Her Mother's Death the Loss of my Lord's Army his leaving England His and her Brothers Banishment after and Proscription and the Seizure of all their Fortunes beside Her own Personal Sufferings and Unsettlements What Duty and Piety when after the Fifths were procur'd She was inabled to become Sollicitor for her Father and Brothers when Loyalty was so Criminal that nothing less would serve then to Except them from Life when with all Her early Diligences and Attendances and Petitionings how humbly and closely soever prosecuted She could not prevail for Her Father Her Brothers only with much difficulty had Pardon for Life And then when things were grown to that Extremity that All that could be had from an Enemy was too scant a Support for Her Banisht Father I have it from an Excellent Hand that with great Obligingness gives this Account in Print She converted Her own Peculium of Jewels and