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A66656 Eurēka, Eurēka the virtuous woman found, her loss bewailed, and character examined in a sermon preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678, at the funeral of ... Mary, countess dowager of Warwick, the most illustrious pattern of a sincere piety, and solid goodness his age hath produced : with so large additions as may be stiled the life of that noble lady : to which are annexed some of her ladyships pious and useful meditations / by Anthony Walker. Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Warwick, Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. Occasional meditations upon sundry subjects. 1678 (1678) Wing W301; ESTC R233189 74,039 235

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him his own fault and hear him presently say As the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely dye This discovers to me my own iniquity who am many times ready with David to condemn my own actions in an other person and to be a severe censurer of the faults of others but to pass a very slight one upon my own and can easily discern the mote in my brothers eye but cannot perceive the beam that is in my own eye O Lord I beseech thee when I would censure make me to begin at home and to judge my self remembring that I have most reason to do so for I can see in my brother but a a life full of sin but I can see in my self an heart full of sin let me therefore in lowliness of mind esteem others better than my self and not judge another but judge my self that I may not be judged of the Lord. REFLECT VII Jos 23.15 But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. LOrd when I read of thy servant Joshuah before his death reckoning up all the great engagements that the Children of Israel had to serve thee to provoke them to renew their Covenant with thee and to keep close to thy service and hear him taking his most happy resolution that whatever they did He and his house would serve the Lord. How desirous O Lord am I to follow this holy man's Example and to resolve that whatever the rest of the World doth I and my Family will serve the Lord let me not think it enough to serve thee my own self but make me to do as thou saidst thou knewst thy servant Abraham would to command my Children and my Houshold after me that they may keep thy Commandments to do Judgement and Justice And as holy David did let me say He that walketh uprightly he shall serve me mine eye shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight that it may be said of me as it was of Cornelius That I fear God and all my house REFLECT VIII Luke 16.25 And Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented LOrd when I read this sad answer of Abraham to the Rich-mans request Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things How sad a remembrance do I believe this must needs be to him to consider his former prosperity and to think that he was cleathed in Purple and sine Linnen and sared sumptuously every day and now wanted a drop of water to cool his tongue The remembrance of his former prosperity was now but an aggravation of his misery For what good did it do him to consider that in his life time he had it may be a great Retinue and many to wait upon him when in Hell his Attendance were only Divels and damned Spirits O Lord I beseech thee therefore let it never be said to me as it was to this miserable great one thou hast in thy life time had thy good things thou hast had thy consolation O Lord I beseech thee give me not my Portion in this Life nor let me have a short Heaven here upon Earth and an eternal Hell hereafter Let me not be satisfied with the blessings of thy Foot-stool without those of thy Throne nor with the fatness of the Earth without the dew of Heaven Let me not say to gold thou art my hope or to the fine gold thou art my confidence Let me not count these lower things my good things because these may stand with Reprobation and a Dives may have them and go to Hell But let me account those things my good things which cannot stand with Reprobation O visit me with the favour of thy chosen O let me not so much covet to be cloathed with purple and fine linnen as to be like the kings daughter all glorious within and be cloathed with the Righteousness of Christ and help me to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and to make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof REFLECT IX Mark 8.36 VVhat shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul LOrd when I read these words and see as it were my blessed Saviour putting the whole world into one Scale of a Ballance and the Soul of a poor Creature into the other and the Soul out-weighing all the World How really doth this convince me that whosoever shall exchange his immortal Soul to gain the whole World would make a sad bargain O Lord I beseech thee therefore let me not sell the Devil mine for a little scrap of it but remembering the preciousness of it by the price it cost For we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ Therefore if the Devil should come to me as he did once to my Saviour and shew me all the Kingdoms of the World and all the glories of them and say all these will I give thee for thy soul I may say to him Get thee behind me Satan I 'll never make such a fools bargain REFLECT X. 1 Sam. 30.6 And David encouraged himself in the Lord his God LOrd when I read this Chapter and consider the sad condition of David who when he returned found Ziglag burnt and his two Wives carried Captives by the Amalekites and the people that were with him talking of stoning him that he was in so sad an out-side condition that he was sorely distressed yet the Text saith that David even then encouraged himself in the Lord his God O Lord how doth this make me cry out and say blessed are the people which are in such a case yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord yea blessed are they who in their greatest tryals and distresses can encourage themselves in God that can trust in God at all times Lord those that know thy name will put their trust in thee and thou wilt keep them in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because they trust in thee O Lord I beseech thee let this make me follow holy David's Example in all my distresses to encourage my self in thee knowing it is better to put confidence in God than to put confidence in Princes REFLECT XI Gen. 22.9 Abraham bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood V. 12. Lay not thy hand upon the lad neither do thou any thing unto him LOrd when I read with what ready obedience faithful Abraham complyed with that command which not only ran cross to his natural affection but eemingly would disappoint the Promise he so long waited for and at length received with so much joy and satisfaction that he named his Son Isaac Laughter as a Witness and Memorial of it And also how when he had stretched out his hand