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truth_n	appear_v	foundation_n	zion_n	14	3	8.8687	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

deserve great praise 2. The object of Praise is some excellent good it must be good or it deserves reproach but it must be also excellent or no notice is taken of it Now the fear of God is excellent Psal 19. The Saints are the excellent of the earth Psal 16.3 The righteous is more excellent than his Neighbour Prov. 12.26 Wisdom excelleth folly as light excelleth darkness Eccles 2.13 And the things of God's law wherein good men exercise themselves are said to be more excellent Rom. 2.18 The godly therefore are to be praised for they are excellent 3. It must be a chosen good for it would be no praise for any Man if that were possible to be good without or against his will If I do this thing willingly I have a reward 1 Cor. 9.17 Now this good woman chuseth Mary hath chosen the good part Luk. 10.42 And so did our honourable Mary if ever any and it is implyed in the reproach cast upon Sinners Prov. 1.29 That they did not chuse the fear of the Lord that the Saints do chuse it Psal 119.30 I have chosen the way of truth thy judgments have I laid before me and vers 137. I have chosen thy precepts Isa 56.4 The eunuchs which chuse the things which please me And it 's the high commendation of Moses Heb. 11.25 26. That he chose to suffer affliction with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and esteemed the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures of Aegypt 4. It must be some permanent and abiding good not fading not like the morning cloud and early dew now the fear of the Lord endureth for ever Psal 19.9 and where it is in truth it will both continue and grow The righteous is an everlasting foundation Prov. 10.25 The good part they chuse shall not be taken away They repent not of their repentance and Christ hath prayed that their faith fail not They go from strength to strength till they appear before God perfect in Zion and bring forth more fruit in their age The path way of the just is as the shining light Pov. 4.18 which shineth more unto the perfect day 2. I shall consider the object of Praise more specially and what men are esteemed to merit praise for with respect to God their Neighbours and themselves 1. Men are praised for their well performing of their duty to God as good servants 2. For their Beneficence to men in all relations as useful just kind charitable amongst and towards all men 3. For their wisdom to themselves as being prudent discreet and wise in their own concerns Now Religion the Fear of the Lord is productive of all these in an eminent degree and therefore are they greatly to be praised in whom it is 1. This fear will make good servants to God This is a principal part of a servants duty Mal. 1.6 If I be a Master where is my fear Now this fear is the root of universal obedience he that fears God will not dare not offend him Fear God and keep his Commandments this is the whole duty of man Eccles 12.13 Only fear the Lord and serve him if you fear him you will not fail to serve him What doth the Lord require of thee Deut. 10.12 but to fear him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and soul serve the Lord with fear Psal 2. Let us have grace whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear Heb. 12.28 Yea the fear of God will help to clean from all filthiness both of flesh and spirit and to perfect holiness 2 Cor. 7.1 So that if it be praise-worthy to be a dutiful child and obedient servant to God as certainly nothing deserves it better the woman that feareth the Lord hath a just claim to Praise 2. The fear of the Lord will make fruitful in all good offices to our Neighbour humble and obedient to Superiours careful of and tender to Inferiours just and kind to all and munificent and liberal to those that are in want This good woman in the Text who feareth the Lord in her heart had fruitful hands and works of her own to praise her in the gates 'T is the excellency of Religion to make good in all relations Good Magistrates 't is the first qualification of Jethro's Justice Able men that fear God Exod. 18.21 So Nehemiah of himself Neh. 5.15 The former Governours which were before me had been chargeable to the people and had taken of them bread and wine and forty shekels of silver yea even their servants had rule over the people but so did not I because of the fear of God and good Subjects Fear thou the Lord and the King Prov. 24.21 Fear God and honour the King 1 Pet. 2.17 One will enforce the other and will make subject for conscience sake Rom. 13.5 It will make loving and good Husbands and it will make good and obedient Wives like Sarah for holy women who trust in God are in subjection to their own husbands 1 Pet. 3. And this made this Virtuous Woman so excellent a Wife It will make good Family-Governours who will walk in their house with a perfect heart and will neither provoke their Children nor deny what 's equal to their servants whilst they remember themselves have a Father and a Master in heaven Col. 4.1 It will make dutiful children and faithful servants Servants obey in all things your Masters according to the flesh not with eye-service as men pleasers but in singleness of heart fearing God Col. 3.22 In a word it will make honest and righteous in our whole conversation S. Peter puts together Acts 10.35 Fearing God and working righteousness It renders also charitable and bountiful to them in need this good Woman vers 20. Stretcheth out her hands to the poor yea she reacheth out her hands to the needy The good man is ever merciful and lendeth yea liberal and giveth Cornelius is described Acts 10.1 A devout man that feared God and gave much alms to the people and S. James tells us that true Religion and undefiled is to visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction that is to relieve them So that if to be good in all relations and to be a Benefactor and common good to mankind deserves praise the fear of God deserves it which makes men such Thirdly and lastly the fear of the Lord will make a man wise for himself to do himself good And men will praise thee when thou dost well to thy self Psal 49.18 And nothing is more praise-worthy in man's account than to be wise nor in the account of God than to be wise to salvation Now the fear of the Lord not only makes wise but is wisdom it self The fear of the Lord that is wisdom and to depart from evil is understanding Job 28.28 Wisdom and Godliness are synonymous words in the Holy Ghost's Language the wise man is the