These Deut. 13. 6 are snatcht from us by Death and these dear enjoyments render us the wider marks for misery and for sorrow And it cannot but shake us in our highest satisfactions to consider how near we stand for ought we know to the extremest loss and disappointment But O how happy will that state be wherein our Joys shall be compleat and perfect having in them not any the least mixture of sorrow or misery In all worldly delights either Defect or Satiety or Deprivation or all of them are great and perpetual diminishings of our content But none of them have any place in Heaven There our desires shall be more fully satisfied than 't is possible for us now to comprehend Our capacities of pleasure shall be sutable to those eternal joys and no possibility of ever being disturbed in those unspeakable enjoyments or deprived of them There we shall live in the Extasies and Raptures of glorified Communion with the Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and Martyrs and all the vertuous and pious Souls in the Church Triumphant And this without the abatements of Ignorance Envy or any of those passions which molest our correspondencies here There the Spirits of all just men shall be made perfect The glorious Society shall be for ever united in dearest Love swallowed up in the contemplation of God and of all his wondrous benefits to the sons of men and in returning those praises and services which our exalted souls shall then be able to perform And this blessed concourse shall be eternal Every Member in that glorified Assembly being out of all possibility of defection or end They cannot die any more Death can never find entrance The security of that Happiness shall be the Crown of it That Life must be eternal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 't is not possible they should die any more And is it not most just and reasonable that our Solicitude and Labour to attain this eternal Life should be proportionate to the dignity and excellencies of it Who would not part with all the Honours and Advancements with all the Riches and Possessions with the gilded follies and vanities of this World rather than fall short of a part in this Heavenly Kingdom We labour and toil endure and comply and do any thing and suffer every thing for the preservation and continuance of a mortal and perishing Life howsoever embitter'd to us but Good God! how little and how coldly are our Thoughts employ'd to make sure of everlasting Life We direct it may be some faint wishes that way now and then The fragments of our time perhaps may be employ'd a little that way too And 't is possible that some publick Consternation or some personal Fear may constrain and force in us some extraordinary applications towards Heaven for a time But the motion is artificial only and ceases when the weights are taken off Then we return to our former indifferency and all the negligences of delay We conclude it time enough to think of another World when we have served our turns in this Religion is a fit employment for melancholy Old-age when the Blood grows chill and languid the Face wrinkled when the Appetites to Pleasure and Folly forsake us when we come to the Staff and to the Couch and grow burdensome to our selves and to others when these evil Days are come Devotion may be a proper entertainment Till then 't is but a tormenting us before our time an imposing upon the pleasure and gaity of Life But certainly a Man must have very mean and vile thoughts of Eternal Life that does not esteem it worthy of more early and vigorous endeavours to gain it but would embrace it only when he sees he must depart from hence as an expedient to save him from Eternal Miseries That Man alone is likely to attain the Joys above who seeks first the Kingdom of God who makes it the great design and pursuit of his whole Life and who contains all inferiour things in their due distance and subordination Let us therefore be persuaded to call in all our stragling Affections and fix and employ all the powers of our Souls to the gaining this happy state of Immortality where we shall find all our labours and pains our self-denials and sufferings abundantly recompenced For there we shall have Knowledg without Mistake Possessions without fading Riches without care or loss Honour without Envy There shall be no Sufferings nor no Sins No more striving between the Flesh and Spirit Our Souls shall never desire to have more nor fear to have less There we shall enjoy all that our Hearts can wish and never grow weary of our wishes There we shall possess all that we desire and still desire the very things we possess In a word we shall be ravish'd in the beholding God satisfy'd in the enjoying him and all this without fear of losing him We shall dwell with the Eternal God in Life Eternal II. The Children of the Resurrection have a similitude to the blessed Angels They are equal unto the Angels Not in all points Different Natures must have different Proprieties Put if the Angels have advantage in some Instances we shall have it in others And particularly in the endearment of Redemption They reverence Jesus Christ as God we as a Saviour also They adore we love him His Glory affects them his Mercy us They desire to look into that Mystery which we enjoy Our fruition is their great Contemplation Their employment Heb. 1. last here in part is to minister for them who shall be Heirs of Salvation and in Heaven our Salvation fills them with wonder and extasy Lord what is Man that thou art so mindful of him A poor miserable sinful Wretch that thou shouldst so regard him But so shall it be with the Man whom the King of Heaven delighteth to Honour Oh the wonders of Divine Love The miracles of Redemption Dust and Ashes like unto the Angels Like unto them in Glory In fitness to serve God and in capacity of enjoying him 1. Like unto the Angels in Glory And what their Glory is and what ours shall be when we are made like unto them is impossible to be described any further than the holy Scriptures do afford us some intimations of it The Gospel Mat. 28. 3. represents the Angels appearance at the Sepulchre in terms more suited to our comprehensions than to his Glory Yet 't is said His Countenance was like Lightning and his Rayment white as Snow A glorious and amazing Lustre did encompass him which made Ver. 4. the Guards shake and become as dead Men. But as great as it was this was still a Glory restrain'd such as the Eyes of Men might endure to look upon For this Angel spake to the holy Women who thereupon Ver. 8. departed with fear and with great joy Their fear was not so great at his Presence as to extinguish their joy at his Message But when the Angels Glory is without check
and limitation in the full splendor of Heavenly Attendance then certainly 't is beyond expression Such shall be the Glory of the Children of the Resurrection It is sown in Dishonour Cor. 15. 42. it is raised in Glory says St. Paul Andthus Mat. 13. 43. Then shall the Righteous shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father And St. Paul again Phil. 3. 21. The Lord Jesus shall change our vile Body that it may be fashioned like unto his Glorious Body All manner of imperfection shall be excluded and such a Glory shall succeed it as may render us fitInhabitants for Heaven and partakers of the Bliss of it But 't is not for us as yet to comprehend it For it is does not yet appear what we shall be 1 Joh. 3. 2. 2. The Children of the Resurrection shall be like unto the Angels in fitnese to serve God Whilst we are here in the Flesh the Soul is disadvantagiously lodg'd Corruption within and Temptation without are great Impediments so that we cannot attend to Service of God without troublesome distractions When our Devotion is at the highest it suffers exceedingly from our Ignorance and Frailty The Spirit is held down by the Flesh and we are so loaded with the impediments of Nature that we difficultly attain any tollerable elevation of Soul and more difficultly preserve it But in Heaven we shall be deliver'd from all Infirmities of the Flesh and serve and glorifie our God as Angels do with understanding readinese vigour speed unity and all other perfections of Obedience The Woman ofTekoah when she would celebrate the Wisdom of David went as high as she could in her Comparison My Lord is Wise faith she according to the Wisdom of 2 Sam. 14. 20. an Angel of God The Psalmist says of Angels that They excel in strength and do his Commandments hearkning unto the voice of his Word Psal 103. 20. Divers other Excellencies does the holy Scripture ascribe unto these Heavenly Ministers which nevertheless do not give them greater Abilities to do service to God than we shall enjoy in a glorifi'd Estate And O how happy will that Condition be when separated from all Lusts and Passions all Sin and Imperfection we shall be exalted to Powers and Abilities of serving the Divine Majesty as his mighty Angels do Here our Praises and Adorations are faint and cold There they shall be offer'd in all the Raptures of a glorified Soul Here with infinite Toil we gain a defective Knowledge There we shall have it in full measure All the secrets of Providence and of Nature so far at least as that Knowledge is worthy of that place shall be manifested to our understanding Here we perform our Duties in a poor scanty fashion striving perpetually with the indispositions and reluctancies of Nature There we shall readily and perfectly obey the Will of God Those little sparks of Divine Fire which sometimes have toucht our Souls in the exercises of Devotion shall then rise to a mighty flame The enlarged Soul will then pay a Service suitable to the God it adores and to the Presence and Society in which it abides Angels and Saints joyning in full Chore to sing Praises to the Enternal God for evermore United Love perfect Service and unspeakable Joy shall be for ever in that New Jerusalem And none of those unhappy Distinctions Separations and uncharitable Divisions that wound and deform our Communion here shall have any room in that blessed Assembly But an universal consent shall be for ever amongst the Members of that glorious Society all uniting in the most joyful Adorations of the Deity And as as we shall then be like unto the Angels in our fitness to serve God so 3. In our Capacities to enjoy him Now we see through a Glass darkly but then Face to Face 1 Cor. 13. 12. 'T is but a Glimps here a full Manifestation in Heaven In this World the Imbecillity of Nature cannot sustain any great discovery of God Hereafter we shall be made capable of the beatific Vision We shall see God and see him as he is Not as now under the vail of a Similitude for all that we know of him here is taught us by resemblances but we shall receive clear apprehensions of him We shall then have a distinct knowledg of that Wisdom Power and Goodness which God has made appear so eminently in all his Works In short all that the Angles do enjoy of God shall be vouchsafed to us also a full participation of supreme Felicity If at our return from the public Service of God at Church if after the Sacrament devoutly received if after the fervent performance of the duties of our Closet we have found a warmth in our Hearts our Souls strangely delighted and raised to an unusual degree of Satisfaction if the Crums that fall from the Table do afford us so great a delight what shall we feel when we come to sit down in the Kingdom of God Luke 13. 19. at the Heavenly Feast of everlasting Joys and Pleasures It was one of St. Augustine's three Wishes to have seen Jesus Christ in the Flesh This would have been in the humility and abasement of His Incarnation What must it be to behold him in all the Glories of his Kingdom And to enjoy him there to adore him as God to love him as a Redeemer to be united to him the Head of all the Members in the Church Triumphant Certainly in that state where the Soul shall be exalted to her utmost possibilities one of its greatest entertainments will be the clear discerning and full comprehension of the Love of the Blessed Jesus in doing and suffering so much for us Men and for our Salvation And this will fill us with such ardency of Love to him as shall transport us with unexpressible Joy and And what can we imagin more conducing to full and perfect Blessedness than to understand the wonderful Mysteries of Divine Love and to be able to make our returns of Love in so high and noble proportion If the Transfiguration did so ravish Saint Peter as to make him cry out Master it is good being here what must it be when our Capacities shall be enlarg'd so as to recive and enjoy the full Tide the mighty Torrent of Divine Majesty and Glory It is no wonder since ' every common thing baffles the largest Understanding that here we have such poor and narrow conceptions of God Canst thou by searching find out God Canst thou find out the Almighty unto Perfection says Zophar Job 11. 7. Should God discover himself to us in any measure suitable to his infinite Perfection the Manifestation would oppress and confound us Our greatest natural Powers could not bear such a Revelation But at the Resurrection we shall be like unto the Angles endow'd with such vast extent of Capacity as may fit us to entertain those discoveries of the eternal Trinity which shall be the inconceivable fruition of the state of
as knowing that Rom. 5. 3. thereby Grace is promoted and our Glory enhanced All the Sufferings which the most Afflicted Man can undergo in this Life are not to be mention'd in comparison with the Joys and Glories of the Life to come which St. Paul has exprest in words of strange emphasis and signification 2 Cor. 4. 17. For our light Affliction which is but for a moment worketh for us a far more exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory But these things cannot be understood till they are enjoyed Even this Excellent Lady whose Funerals have given occasion to this Discourse in her highest and most ravishing Meditations of Heaven could but conjecture only and that very imperfectly what God hath prepared for her and for all those that love him But she understood and felt so much as served to engage and animate her in all the Exercises of holy Living And she never thought those Conditions hard which God requires to make Col. 1. 12. us meet to be partakers of the Inheritance of the Saints in Light And this I shall endeavour to make appear in the following accounts of her which I have collected from the happy opportunities I have had for many Years to make observation of her holy Life and from some Memorials which those who best knew her have communicated to me And if any can be so invidious as to think the Character I shall give can exceed the Subject I shall say nothing but that of the admirable Pliny That those that neglect the Lib. 3. Epist 21. doing Praise-worthy things look upon all Commendation to Flattery Nor shall I fear any Misconstructions it being an excellent service to Vertue and Piety when those Persons who have been the greatest Examples of it are commended to Imitation For an Hundred Sermons and Advices of Religion are not so persuasive as a single Example especially so Illustrious an one as this most incomparable Person was She was Born within few miles of this Place being the Fifth Daughter of her great and Vertuous Parents of whose Blood and Descent it is not my design to give any Account Nor can it be needful to any that have the least acquaintance with the History or Heraldry of the Kingdom She was educated under the Care Precepts and Examples of her Excellent Mother And her great and capacious Soul received and improved those happy Advantages to such a Degree that besides other Qualifications proper to a Person of her Age Sex and Quality she had very early attained to great measures of Prudence and of grave and wise Conduct and in the Prophets words The Child was an Hundred Years 1 Isa 65. 20. old And this was no defect of Wit or Spirit Her composedness of Mind proceeded not from Phlegm Nor was Dulness excused and concealed under the name of Gravity She understood well and in its proper season could entertain her self and others with all the innocent Ingenuities and sprightliness of Conversation But her great Soul aspired to more suitable Entertainments to things Solid Improving and Rational She had then so little of the Levity Heats and Indiscretions common in that time of Life that she became Example to her Sex even in her very young Years and had thereby the mighty advantages of setting out at first in a right Course gaining habits of Vertue and exalting her Mind with the noblest Images and Rules of it To the gaining these Attainments she had the assistance of a quick and sharp Understanding and deep Apprehension with a Judgment so descerning as happily determined her the right Way when she was at any time to conclude what was True or False Good or Evil. For having submitted her innocent and unprejudiced Soul to the conduct of Vertue and continually begging of Almighty God the Illumination and Guidance of the Holy Spirit she was by this means preserved from those Errors into which Pride and Confidence have seduced many others Nor was it an inconsiderable Safeguard that she always had upon her Spirit so great a sense of Honour By which I mean not any immoderate remembrance of her noble Extraction nor any insolent or haughty Behaviour towards others for none could be more Humble and Obliging but I mean a continual regard to things naturally Great and Honourable a Circumspection to avoid all that is base and vile and unsuitable to the dignity of Nature and the principles of Vertue and to that conditon of Men from whom the Laws and Rules of Demeanour are expected Her Passions and Affections as is usual in the most elevated Souls were great and quick but under such admirable restraint and command that one would have thought it had been Constitution in her and not Discipline And that she had been the Mistress of her Passions by the benevolence of Nature and not by Care and Labour But this latter was manifest For she was far from being insensible And as she understood as well as any all the Offices of Friendship so would her generous Mind resent them She had none of that Meanness in her to study Diminutions of any Act of Kindness or to suspect a Design in it but magnify'd it to others and to her self too She readily supposed every thing that could greaten the Testimonies of Friendship to her and her Recompences always bore proportion to this Generosity She was always jealous her Returns had not been sufficient and that she had come short of the just performances of a Friend But in case of any neglect or failure towards her of any unkindness or disservice in what measure soever she might apprehend it all her Resentments were sealed up Not that she kept any black Registers of Injuries or Memento's against an opportunity of Retaliation But she consider'd all that could lessen the Offence and where it could not be defended she made sure to forgive it And if any exprest a concernment that she was Injured she labour'd to appease them by alleging all imaginable Excuses and Extenuations of the Offender's Fault Not esteeming any interest of her own worthy the passion of a Friend's Vindication She bore so perfect a hatred to all Vice and Immorality that the least approaches towards it in any Person received from her the reprehension of a Blush or a Frown of if she judg'd it expedient a more direct and open Confutation But she had few occasions to exercise this part of her Vertue For her presence was awful and 't is a Torment to vain and extravagant Persons to be under the Limitation and Confinement which Vertuous Company puts upon them It is possible nevertheless that in many Persons far inferiour to her in Goodness some actions and behaviours of a resembling Nature may be observed But then they are commonly but the Ostentations of a counterfeit Vertue little devices and ambushes to get Fame and Commendation In her they were grown to Custom So Habitual and Familiar that she never expected any Observation ought to be made of them To all
these Qualities of a cultivated and enlarg'd Mind excellent Understanding and a commanding Reason she supperadded a Holy Pure and even Angelical Life To know God and to be like him was her first and great Endeavour She lived always in prospect of Heaven and thither did her Devout Spirit evermore aspire This made those Temptations which prevail so fatally upon others prove only Molestations to her This World as it was to Monica discoursing of Heaven with her holy Son S. August Conf. s 9. c. 10. was vile and dispicable in her Eye whose Contemplations and Longings were directed to things Eternal She wisely concluded that a meek and quiet Spirit a true Devotion and severe Vertue were more excellent Acquisitions and more lovely Ornaments than any of the gaudy Vanities wherewith vulgar and narrow Souls are so unreasonably transported Nor did she only approve the things that are Excellent but she practised them also to such a Degree that in her Primitive Christianity was revived and she lived as those first Christians did and as we should And this by the Grace of God preserved her from those low conceptions of Religion which many have taken up Who would make it to consist in the little badges and cognizances of a Party in angry Disputings and foolish Wranglings in bringing all things into Question and projecting eternal amendments in Spiritual Affairs in zealous contending about Words and Names c. Talk and Pretence she never esteem'd worthy her Consideration and was not to be impos'd upon by the sleights and ostentation of the Factors for other Churches But having upon Principles of Judgment and Conviction fully satisfy'd her self she conscienciously and devoutly adhered to the Doctrine Worship and Discipline of the Church of England And though like Mary in in the Gospel she had thus chosen the better part making Religion her great Business and Employment yet she was sensibly offended when she found it taken notice of unless it were by Imitation Her design being to provoke others to good Works not to flattering Attributions Not that she was asham'd of being thought Religious but she dreaded the Hypocrisy of a designed Publication that she was so And as a further Evidence that she studied the Power of Godliness not the Form of it she labour'd most in the retired intimacies of true Religion This appear'd in the constant frequency of her private Devotions which she perform'd three times a Day at the least Using to that purpose the most private Concealments not only to avoid Disturbance but what she more shun'd Discovery And to assist enlarge and enforce her Devotions she added to them frequent Fasts Wherein she held her self to our Saviour's Rule Mat. 6. 16. When ye Fast be not as the Hypocrites of a sad Countenance For they disfigure their Faces that they may appear unto Men to Fast But when thou fastest anoint thy Head and wash thy Face that thou appear not unto Men to Fast but unto thy Father which is in secret and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly Thus upon such occasions she would seem to eat and to take her usual Repast that she might escape Observation Nor would any thing more discompose her than an inquisition into her Abstinence To her Prayers and Fasting she added as a necessary Concomitant Alms to the Poor in dispensing whereof she was extermely Kind and Bountiful and was somewhat severe to her self oftentimes that she might be the more Charitable to them that were in Need. And her Liberality in this kind was always accompanied with such a condescending and obliging Compassion as render'd her Reliefs of the Distressed doubly comforting to them But in these Pious Distributions she used such means of secrecy that no more particular accounts can be given than such as can be gathered from those Persons who to manifest their Gratitude have made trespass upon their promises of Concealment To sustain and nourish this constant course of Piety and Devotion she drew daily Succours from the Holy Scriptures beginning and concluding every Day with some Portion of them And this not as a Task and to maintain a Custom but as a peculiar Delight and the most agreable entertainment of her Mind Which appeared in her Youthful time when about Twenty Years since she resided here in this Town the Bell at Four in the Morning even in the Winter Season was her certain Summons to her Devotions which were seconded by diligent Reading and Meditating upon the holy Word of God Wherein she assisted her self not only by Public Sermons but by the best and soundest Expositors which our Church affords And all this not to give her self a mere intellectual Improvement and Satisfaction But she suffer'd the Divine Law to pass into Government It ruled and commanded her in all her Actions and she adorned the Doctrine of God our Saviour by a suitable Conversation But it is not to be omitted that the principal of all her Joys was the blessed Sacrament Her devout Soul finding the most satisfying refreshments in the Spiritual Feast of the most precious Body and Blood of her Saviour which made her most earnestly embrace every Opportunity she could lay hold on to partake of that holy Mystery Accordingly she Communicated once every Month since her Residence in London fitting her self before-hand with all possible preparations due to the Dignity of that Divine Celebration And herein she exercised such Acts of Devotion and Religious Austerity to her self as if it had been the last Act of her Life And that she were to pass from the Altar to the Tribunal from the Table of our Lord to his Judgment-Seat Neither was this with the neglect of other Duties For she loved to draw nigh to God in all the Ways of approaching him She attended the Church upon all Occasions with a zeal like that of holy Anna who departed not from the Temple but Luk. 3. 27. served God with Eastings and Prayers Night and Day And so much was her Mind fixed upon the Offices of Religion that as soon as ever she could obtain Release from Business or from Company she took up some work of Devotion and return'd to those Spiritual Fruitions with new Appetites and impatient Desires Yet did not all this Retirement and the Devotional Employments of it contract any moroseness of Humour in her Herein she also imitated her Saviour Who though He spent whole Nights in Prayer and lived as became the Son of God and the Redeemer of the World yet was pleased to Converse with infinite Benignity and Condescention even to the meanest People For her Religion was of such a Complexion that she never lookt upon rigid Sowrness and censorious Austerity to be any Ornament to it The Holy Spirit she well knew produces Fruits of another kind Namely Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness c. Gal. 5. 22. Which Fruits all that had the happiness to know her will acknowledg were eminently visible in her Life
and Actions Thus perpetually exercising upon her self so wise and holy a Discipline she arrived to so noble an elevation of Mind that the assaults of Passion could not move her For certainly none ever had a greater evenness of Mind and calmness of Spirit in all Events Some occasions she met with that put to trial her Patience and Contentment But in her they Produced no visible alteration She still preserved her wonted constancy and serenity of Soul Not that she was Insensible but she was Content Her Philosophy was not Stoical but Christian it was not Apathy but Resignation In short So uniform was she in the practice of all Christian Vertue that she adorned and illustrated every Relation wherein she stood A Friend she was even to Supererogation beyond what could be expected or without Reluctancy sometimes admitted A most dutiful Daughter even to the highest Degree and Example A Wife precisely observant from the smallest things to the greatest provident and careful in all the Concernments of her worthy Husband studying and contriving his Interests and Satisfaction in every thing She was such a Wife in whom the Heart of her Husband did safely trust in whom he had Pro. 31. 11. all joy and delight To which he made the most affectionate returns of Kindness Love and tenderest Care All which are now redoubled upon her little Daughter the only pledg of their Conjugal Affection For so it pleased Almighty God to order it That in the midst of this Excellent Ladie 's preparation for Communicating at the Lord's Table she was seized with that Disease which soon after became Mortal to her On the next Lord's-Day in the Morning she thought her self in condition to leave her Bed and pay her Devotions at Church and to partake of the holy Sacrament that Day to be administred But those vigorous longings of her Soul made her judge too well of the state of her Body For her strength soon fail'd her and they that attended her found it necessary to continue her in all the accommodations of a Sick Person And she her self also was by this time so far convinced of the weak condition of her Body that she concluded her End was near and thenceforth dismist all Worldly Thoughts and Cares and every thing that might give Impediment to her in her preparations for another World Then it was when she had before her the mighty prospect of Eternity that she severely Arraign'd and Judg'd her self examining her Life past with the strictest and most accurate scrutiny What past between God and her own Soul we cannot pretend to know But she discover'd a trouble not without bemoaning her self That she had not improved her time as she ought to have done If one that liv'd such a holy and severe Life makes such complaints Good God! what accounts will those Persons make whose times is their burden who call in Pleasures Vanity Folly and Vice to drive it away One thing more did it seems touch her Thoughts which was this That she had set her Heart too much upon her little Child So jealous was she lest a just Natural Affection should grow so immoderate as to become Criminal and her Love to God suffer any abatements by her kindness to an only Child Self-accusations of this sort were indications of a very tender Conscience and of a very innocent Soul Happy Saint That upon her Death-bed had no greater matter against her self Who would not purchase such Peace as she then felt at any rate whatsoever Her acquaintance with God and her interest in Him were not then to be made That had been her early Care and daily Business Her Life came under continual reviews and she judg'd her self to prevent God's judging her Her account was always in a readiness to be deliver'd up And her hopes of Heaven were so fixt and ravishing that the World could not tempt nor Death affright her but she entertain'd her Dissolution as her Privilege and being Righteous she had hope in her Death Prov. 14. 32. Nor was an t thing of this to be ascribed to her Distemper Sickness 't is true does often stupify the Mind and the oppression of the Spirits may be sometimes mistaken for an undisturbed and unsettled Soul But in her 't was manifestly the assurance of Faith and Christian confidence in the Merits and Intercession of her dear Lord and Saviour For God continu'd to her in all the time of her Sickness the great mercy of a clear Understanding and perfect Sence and Memory to the last Which she most piously made use of in humble Resignations devout Prayers heavenly Meditations holy Discourses and Advices and in all suitable entertainments of a departing Soul At last Without Agonies or any great Pains without frightful Accidents without Fears and Horrors without the disturbance of Temptations But in a sweet Calm of Conscience in stedfast Faith and perfect Charity in joyful expectation of Eternal Life she quietly gave up her Soul into the Hands of her most Merciful Redeemer Thus liv'd and thus dy'd this Excellent Person in peace with God in Communion with his Church in Charity with all the World leaving the Memorial and Example of her holy Life to the Imitation of all that desire to excel in Vertue And though we mourn and lament her Death let it not be without the consolation of this Remembrance that She cannot die any more but is equal with the Angels and is a Child of God being one of the Children of the Resurrection FINIS