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A28821	A mirrour of Christianity and a miracle of charity, or, A true and exact narrative of the life and death of the most virtuous Lady Alice, Dutchess Duddeley published after the sermon in the Church of St. Giles in the Fields / by R.B., D.D., rector of the said church, on Sunday the 14th of March, MDCLXIX.	R. B. (Robert Boreman), d. 1675.	1669 (1669)	Wing B3758; ESTC R11208	27,802	56

for or expected It is the Saviour which is Christ the Lord. First for the expectantes We i. e. nos fideles We Christ's faithful ones we as the Mother of Sisera Judg. 5.18 Look'd out at a window and cried when she expected his return with victory over the Israelites Why is his Chariot so long in coming So we look through the Casement of Hope for Christ's second coming to Judgment Now Hope is the expectation of some great good which we believe we shall receive because he is faithful that promised it For this cause Clem. Alexandrinus calls Hope 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the blood or Life of Faith for that it keeps our Faith warm without the which it would languish and faint Faith without Hope may be in Hell as well as on Earth The Devils believe Jam. 2.19 That Christ will come to be our Judge but they are afraid and tremble as the wicked do when they think of it because their torments shall be encreased then as the joy of the good Angels and Saints augmented with a clearer or fuller Vision of Almighty God They only look for Christ with Hope expecting his second coming they only who believe in him as their Redeemer We look says the Apostle excluding all unbelievers we look for the Saviour So it is Expectatio fidem testificans such an expectation as testifies our faith in Christ and by this as an infallible Rule we may assure our Souls of the soundness and Truth of our Faith in Christ that our sins by him and through him are pardoned and our Persons justified if with Hope joyn'd with inward Joy and Comfort we wait for his second Advent For in the second place This expectation is Expectatio animam exhilarans it is such a looking or expectation which in the midst of all their sorrows refreshes and revives the Spirits of the Saints for they reason thus with themselves Here in this life our bodies are oft upon the rack of sickness pinch'd with pains and tortur'd with Aches but then at the Resurrection or last day of Judgment they shall rise as so many bright shining Suns out of the dark celles of their graves and in a moment be invested with those glorious qualities that adorn the body of our Lord Christ as is attested by the Apostle in the next verse to the Text. Again They believe that they shall find Christ then at his Appearance not their Judge to condemn but their Advocate to plead for them Why then say they should we be dismaid for fear of that Judgment wherein he is to be the Judge who at first suffer'd for us in his body on the Cross as a Surety or Redeemer that he might satisfie his Father's Justice for our sins and having paid our debts by his death hath ever since pray'd for us as an Intercessour and will at last be our gracious Rewarder Thus the Saints look for Christ with an expectation which rejoyces the heart They delight in the coming of their Saviour Thirdly This their Expectation or looking for Christ is Expectatio vitam purificans such an Expectation as is attended with purity of life and holiness in a strict conversation They ever have as S. Hierome professes that he had the voice of the Archangel Arise ye dead and the noise of the last trumpet sounding as it were in their ears When those that are Christ's that lived and died his faithful servants shall rise first out of their graves and meet their Lord in the air to receive an everlasting Crown the reward of their service Then the sinners and ungodly shall be raised their bodies being as black as the Infernal darkness and having received their sentence from the mouth of their Judge their bodies and souls shall be sent back to their dark Prisons in Hell where they shall be ever burning and never consumed in flames of fire and brimstone The consideration of these everlasting burnings as it makes the Saints to set an high price or value upon the Lord Jesus so it engages them to a strict performance of all holy Duties as continual prayer sobriety and watchfulness being assur'd that none at that great day shall escape the sentence of Condemnation with the wicked who are surpris'd by Death and snatch'd away in their sins of which they have not repented For most true is that saying of S. Aug. Epist 80. to Hesychius In quo quemque invenerit suus novissimus dies in hoc eum comprehendet mundi novissimus qualis in die illo quisque moritur talis in die altero judicabitur In what condition a man is found at the hour of Death in the same shall he be looked upon at the great day of Judgment If he be surprised by Death in the state of Impenitency he shall then be condemn'd as an Impenitent without mercy If death finds thee without sin it being severed from thy soul by an hearty Repentance thy Soul shall not be separated from God but shall with thy glorified body partake of everlasting blessedness To conclude He that shall come i. e. Christ who is designed by God to be our Judge will come and will not tarry Heb. 10.37 i. e. not fail to come on that very day which is appointed for him to summon all men to Judgment Of that day and hour knoweth no man Matth. 24-36 It is hid from the eyes of our understanding and knowledge but let not the thought of it be banished from our hearts let us expect our Lord's coming every day he comes first by Death before he comes to judgment Therefore let our expectation of him be in the last place Expectatio attentè vigilans an Expectation or looking for him attended with an attentive watchfulnes All our watching all our praying with other holy duties should drive at this end that when Death comes it may find us well doing or in an holy frame of living and we it our friend which is an enemy to the Impenitent and ungodly sinners Suppose thou seest Death marching towards thee with a cup of deadly poison in one hand and a Crown in the other and that if it take thee in the midst of thy sins that Poison will be thy potion but if it find thee watching and praying that Crown shall be thy lot or portion Oh! then put on Job's resolution Chap. 14.14 All the days of my appointed time will I wait till my change come 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 expectabo wait is but a Syllable but of a large and spreading signification and comprises the main if not the whole duty of man He that waits does watch 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 with an awful care and circumspection with an holy Fear and Jealousie over himself ever suspecting his own weakness so that he is ever upon duty always busied either in the immediate Acts of Piety or in the ordinary works of his Calling that the Devil or his own imbred corruptions may not supplant or hurt him nor Death surprise his Person

the Mother of five gracious Daughters Alice Douglasse Frances wife of Sir Gilbert Kniueton Knight Anne wife of Sir Robert Holburne Late of Lincolnes Inne all these Deceased And Katherine the onely surviving Picture in Piety and goodness of her Lady Mother and Widow of Sir Richard Leveson Knight of the Bath The Town of Stonely in which our Illustrious Dutchess was born has more reason to glory in that She breath'd her first breath in it than the seven Cities had in Homer the Prince of Poets who by all of them was challenged all laying a claim or Title to his birth in them But as her Ladiships being born in the foresaid Stoneley will not add any inward virtue though it may an outward luster to it so Her being descended from and related to an Ancient Noble Family is the slenderest part or piece of her Character and Glory That she was born of God by Spiritual Regeneration and so His Daughter by Adoption and a Sister of Christ by love and likeness of Him this is her Chiefest glory the highest degree of her commendation 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 So said S. Chrysostome in a Panegyrical Oration The principal thing to be look'd at and commended in recounting a Genealogy is the Virtue of a man or woman If we consider the whole Series or course of her life we shall have a just occasion to say that in her person and by her actions she gave a stop or check in a way of answer to that doubtful Question of Solomon Prov. 31.10 Who can find a Virtuous Woman who can without God's special blessing obtained by Prayer unto Him and without God's Divine appointment and Ordination This sure was the wisemans meaning But to return to my purpose from this short digression The precious balme of Grace that was powred by God's blessed Spirit into the Soul of our Renowned Dutchess at her Baptism or in her Infancy being strengthned with the addition of a godly Education brake forth in such a sweet perfume even from her Childhood to Her riper years that she was look'd upon as an Earthly Saint an Angel clothed in Flesh a lawful Image of Her Maker and Redeemer a model of Heaven made up in Clay the living Temple of the Holy Ghost This was evidenced by these ensuing Graces First By Her Extraordinary Piety or Religion Her behaviour towards God was rare and admirable for being instructed in and perswaded of the truth of that Religion which we profess as distinct from that false one of the Church of Rome and being firmly grounded in those Fundamentals and saving Truths which our Religion teaches us viz. That God alone is to be prayed unto and worshipped not Saints nor Angels That by Christ only we can be saved by his merits and Gods mercy not by our own works she accordingly upon these grounds served God night and day as that good old Prophetess Anna did Luke 2.37 with fastings and prayers especially during the time of her Virgin-widowhood she was 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Tim. 5.5 a widow indeed such as was that famous Paula and Marcella by S. Hierome in his Epistles so highly magnified She well knew that though second marriage is no sin yet as one says Iteratò nubere est signum Incontinentiae c. She therefore to preserve in her fame the honour and in her soul and body the joy and sweet content of Continency refused to marry declaring thereby that though many great persons wanted her or rather as the fashion of the world is her money yet she had no need of any to be joyn'd with her in a conjugal society An enlargement of her Estate she never designed nor desir'd by the addition of a Joynture but moving in the Sphear of her own fortune and contenting her self with the portion God had given her she clave close to God and was joyn'd to Him by Faith and Affiance and so she was espoused to God and the Lord of Heaven married to her being her Husband as he professes himself to have been to Israel Jer. 31.32 in regard of his Love Care and Providence to her Religious Person who spent as much time or more in reading of God's word and other godly books the extracts of it as others do in their Glasses by which they correct the defaults in their dresses and blemishes in their faces not regarding in the mean while the blots and spots the defilements and stains of sin that disfigure the native beauty of their Souls which are usually left naked and for want of prayer to God divested of Grace but clothed with the black mantle of Lascivious and Unclean thoughts Our pious Dutchess took into her prime care her righteous soul the spouse of God by Prayer and Meditation with which a soul is winged she sent it up in a flight to Heaven every morning and thus conversing with God in the mount of Devotion it return'd again into her bosome as Moses did from the Mount with it's face shining and lightsome with joy and inward Consolation The more familiar conference we have with God in prayer the more do we partake of him He that passes by the fire may have some gleams of heat but he that stands by it will have his Colour changed It is not possible a man should have any long conference with God in Prayer and Meditation but that his heart shine with inward illumination and being enflamed with the love of God partake of some Divine Inspiration And thus she acquainting her self daily and conversing with God in her Closet or Private and more publike family devotions which she never omitted was wonderfully beautified and strengthned in her soul by Grace which had taken up it's lodging in her and displayed it self outwardly in five special Saint-like Qualities which made her conversation amiable pleasant and Venerable to all her Equals and Inferiors The first was a winning and obliging way or disposition that sweetly scatters favours by this being a desire of doing good to all even to our very enemies we attract friendships and make friends even of those that hate us Thus did that good Dutchess The second is Affability this was eminently in her joyn'd with a becoming Grace and sweet behaviour and hath in it a power to charm Souls that are in any the least way or degree inclined to Honesty and Civility She was Courteous to all even the meanest person who might find her ear open to any just Request or Modest Petition When she bestowed any favour or gave an Alms She gave it cheerfully without grudging or any the least repining so the loaf which she gave was not Panis Lapidosus as Seneca speaks but pure and fine Manchet without any mixture of Gravel An Alms given with hard Language reproach or an harsh exprobration is gravel-bread and at once loses both it's thanks and commendation The third Prudence a gracious Quality of the Soul which is ever joyn'd with Wisdom as it 's inseparable Companion as appears by