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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93662	Aphonologos. A dumb speech. Or, A sermon made, but no sermon preached, at the funerall of the right vertuous Mrs Mary Overman, wife to Mr Thomas Overman the younger. Of the parish, formerly called, Saint Saviours, or vulgarly Mary Overis, in Southwarke. By B. Spencer, minister of Bromley.	Spencer, Benjamin, b. 1595?	1646 (1646)	Wing S4942; Thomason E1180_3; Thomason C.54.aa.1(3); ESTC R208123	32,914	87

Eccles 7.2 It is better to goe into the house of mourning then of feasting because that is the end of all men and the wicked will lay it to his heart For when I see a man die I get this by it to remember my end also that my day of accompt will come too When I see one die willingly it comforts me against death that it is to be embraced rather then seared If I see one die resolutely it gives me advantage to be valiant also and so make the blood of the Martyrs to be the seed of the Church When I see one patient in sicknesse and hopefull in death I gaine some confirmation of my assurance that surely there is a reward for the righteous and the patient abiding of the meek shall not perish for ever For I see there is hope laid up in their bosomes from which Death cannot make them start And thus the dust of the dead is like fresh mold cast into a garden which makes all things spring the better Quot justi tot miserationes So many good-men so many mercies if they live to keep off judgements if they die to guide us by examples that they and we may at last meet together in one CHRIST JESUS who hath left us an example that we should follow his steps that he may both in life and death be of so great power with us that death may prove a gaine to us and we a glory to him To whom together with the Father and the holy Spirit three Persons and one onely true and ever-living Lord God be rendred as is most due all honour and glory and praise now and for ever AMEN Memoriale Sacrum AN APPENDIX TO THE Pious and Learned Sermon OF Mr BENJAMIN SPENCER To the perpetuall Memory of the most Vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs MARY OVERMAN Who departed this life to live with the Saints on a double Saints day being that of S. Philip and Jacob. BEING A Speech written not spoken by her sorrowfull Husband THOMAS OVERMAN PROV 10.7 The memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot PSAL. 112.6 The righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance 164● Memoriale Sacrum To my friends at the Funerall not at the Sermon YOu all had I Confesse deare friends upon the sad occasion of this Invitation an undenyable Civil Right to this Funerall not Factious Sermon falsly so christned by some ill-meaning men who would give it no other name before it went to Church or the Pulpit but what a factious Conventicle begat Which it seemes has this priviledge unknowne till now to miscall any thing And since Innocence never is in greater danger then when Detraction acts its part against it be pleased now to see what would not then be suffered in your hearing this dumbe Sermon speake both for it selfe and your deceased Sister a choice young Christian silenced by death Whose blessed innocence hath made her uncapable of speaking here but by a proxie who being dead yet speaketh by her surviving husband her proximated friend by Gods appointment Who as hee must not be injurious in the least respect to a deceased loving Wife that being wholy inconsistent with his last dutie to her to whom he must ever owe a pretious memorie so must he now publish to the impartiall world that she had an unquestionable right as dying a Christian to a peacefull buriall For as she lived in faith fixt so she died in the full hope of a very good Christian What Antichristians then were they that hindred it I leave for you to judge I will therefore crave leave to be at this present what indeed I am your sorrowfull Historian yet my historie must be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a sad glad relation of this our sister who is now gathered to her heavenly Father I have therefore first presented you with the Sermon it selfe which was then supprest but not obliterated as you may perceive you need not feare what Faction saith against it here 's no such infection The Sermon you shall finde attend the Text and the occasion onely and after take its leave of you So that all the way till it bring you home it will entertaine you with no other discourse but the livelie Character of a true Christian dead to the world betimes And the example of our deceased friend will doe no lesse A good and full account she made of that pretious time God left her here which you will plainly perceive both by the rejoycings she had in her well-spent life and with firme hopes in earnest of a full assurance of a comfortable death And withall have her dying example for your living patterne which will guide you like wise how to make up your accompts well that you may be happie too when ere you goe hence and be no more seen which wee all sooner or later inevtablie must So that it highly concerns us whilst wee are here to make good our accompts first if at last wee would not misse of that happinesse of good Christians And blessed be God that of his fullnesse this our deceased sister did receive grace for grace Who driving on towards the marke of her high calling and aiming at perfection went on from one degree of grace unto another till glory came upon her So that wee doubt not in the least measure of her fullnesse of glory whither she is gone A Progresse you shall see she had and that in goodnes being well acquainted with that truely divine maxime That not to goe forward is to goe backward and not to thrive in goodnes not to be good at all But she stood not at such an unhappy stay for I may safely affirme that piety throve with her even from her infancy humilitie with either both strove to out-strip each other neither came to full stature yet perseverance crowned all She well knew she must carry her goodnes to the grave if shee meant to goe to heaven For without holynes no hopes of that happinesse to see the face of God Minoritie and Sanctity do not usually meet yet here both we see a young Woman dead to sinne and ready for death which is no lesse admirable then rare A reason then you see I am ready to give you of our good hope wee have of this dead Sister t was such indeed of which wee need not bee ashamed no more then she was So truly lively that I may confidently say The just mans and the just womans hope were here all one Her end then must needs be like his I will therefore first shew you how she led the life of the righteous and next how shee dyed the death of the righteous too And this taske I shall truly performe if you please to consider with me First What she did And in this I must beare her witnes that in all her actions God had her early day for in them she constanstly looked heaven-ward first and let religion in Full oft have I been an eye-witnes with joy

In a word let sin die before thee and then it cannot follow thee to judgment Feare not death but looke to the errour of your life break off sinne by repentance and entertaine Christ and death will be found without sting yea no crosse but a crowne no dart but a scepter shalt thou find in Christs hand or an olive in token of our victorie As confidently thou maist passe deaths teeth as once Ignat. did the teeth of wild beasts who said before hand when he was condemned I care not what death I suffer for seeing I am Gods corn I care not with what flaile of death he please to beat me out for I am willing to beground even by the teeth of these beasts that I may make cleane bread for Christ who became the bread of life for me How cheerfully may we then say Egredere anima mea egredere Goe forth my Soul Ps 142.9 to meet thy Saviour with David pray Lord bring my soul out of this prison that I may praise thy Name And with Saint Aug. Creasti nos ob te and Lord thou hast created us for thy selfe and I cannot be quiet til I come to thee And then shall begin that heavenly Epithalamium or wedding song of foure parts sung in Antiphona's and Responsories The Lamb saith Come and the Spirit saith Come and the Bride saith Come and thy soule shall say Come Lord Jesus come quickly So did this our deceased Sister Mrs MARY OVERMAN descended of an ancient and worthy Family of the Breretons marryed into an accomplished Family of the Overmans with whom though she found sufficiencie and satisfaction to her owne hearts desire yet she breathed after another life Not because she was sullenly faln out of love with the world but in love with Christ as appeared by her dying words which must eternize her memory when as a little before her dissolution this earnest and pious prayer departed from her first Lord when shall I come and appear before the presence of Christ my JESVS Dying MARY it seemes by this was ready for living CHRIST and living CHRIST as willing to receive dying MARY for soone after he took her to himselfe Who though she was weak in body yet was she strong in faith and hope which viaticum she had with her to strengthen her in her journey and to convey her soule into the hands of her Redeemer Herein as well approving as professing her selfe a true MARY in choosing that better part which now shall never be taken from her Next to Christ her Head in heaven she loved her Head on earth whom God had given her and like the Turtle loved her Mate yet was not like Rachel importunate for children nor yet dejected for want of them She spent her time not idly as many of her degree too usually doe even in these times whose miseries call to baldnesse and sackcloth but like another Dorcas she seemed to those that have seene her constant employment so farre from being idle that she was most an end well busied and full of good works So that as it was written of the Ladie Paula so it may be of Her too that she spent most of her time either in good workes or Gods worship Her chamber was not onely a shop of Confection as the fashion is but an Oratorie for Devotion Thirdly In a long and tedious consumption she behaved her selfe very patiently and knowing under whose hand she suffered opened not her mouth in any discontent and well perceiving it was the Lords doing thus to permit her to suffer she laid her downe and possest her soule in patience only with the meeke spirit of Iob intending Saint-like to imitate him in this her sanctified affliction in the depth of her consumption yet in the height of her devotion applyed ever and anon Jobs deploring words to her languishing selfe and like him wholy submitting her selfe to Gods dispoall said My months are moneths of vanity and sad nights are appointed for me And at other times in Davids words for she conversed much with dead Saints whiles she was living and had therefore learnt to use their language now she was dying when in his prayer he deciphered his miseries that he might the easier implore mercy Psalm 31.10 My life is consumed with greif and my years with sighing So that as Saint Ambrose said of one dying of such a disease so may we of hers that it seemd a martyrdome Yet was she not childishly afraid of death nor struggled she much to retaine life as some doe from whom God is faine as it were to teare away their soules but she offered up hers as a free-will-offering with a contempt of the world saying Away with all these things and with an earnest desire besides to be with Christ who having beene her life made death her gaine Which Text it seemes was some time since her owne meditation as appeares by her notes under her owne hand with this her devout paraphrase found upon them Heaven is my home I am a stranger here Which undoubtedly was the language of her heart as well as of her hand And if so what can we lesse perswade our selves she is then what she made her selfe by her pious endeavours a true a very MARY that is by interpretation Excellent Excellent in Contemplation thereby anticipating the joyes of heaven whilst she walkt upon the earth and excellent in action too her actions speaking her a perfect servant of the Almighty And therefore now no doubt after death a partaker of his glory with her fellow Saints for right dear in the sight of the Lord is the death of such Saints so deare that he takes them into his bosome And for our parts we may say of her as Saint Hierome said of Fabiola Ex annulo Ecclesiae monile perdidimus We even wee have lost a precious jewell out of the Ring of the Church But lost she is not I doe her wrong to say so of her whom God hath found She is not dead but sleepeth And her flesh doth rest in hope that what is sowne in weaknesse shall rise in power according to his mightie working who is able to subdue all things unto himselfe who bringeth downe to the grave and raiseth up by whom death is already swallowed up in victorie and so made an advantage to us Thus passed this precious Saint from sicknesse to perfect health from weaknesse to perfect strength from bondage to perfect freedome from trouble to perfect peace from losse to perfect gaine from heavinesse to perfect joyes In a word she is passed from death to life and from earth to heaven to be for ever in perfect happinesse where wee leave her safe and come to cloze with you Now therefore as the death of Christ doth for us make a gaine of death so may the death of good men and women worke some advantage also for us in that point and so their death may be a gaine to us Therefore Solomon sayes