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A00510	A sermon preached at Ashby De-la-zouch in the countie of Leicester at the funerall of the truely noble and vertuous lady Elizabeth Stanley one of the daughters and coheires of the Right Honourable Ferdinand late Earle of Derby, and late wife to Henrie Earle of Huntingdon the fifth earle of that familie. The 9. of February. Anno Dom. 1633. By I.F.	I. F., fl. 1633.; Fletcher, Joseph, 1577?-1637, attributed name.	1635 (1635)	STC 10644; ESTC S116875	15,055	48

unto great depravations and exorbitancies so that we may say of her as Greg Naz said of his Sister Gorgonia 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 She made the fruite of her Bodie to become the fruite of the spirit And of the same goodnesse there was a proportionable diffusion amongst those that depended on her How many that lived neere her hath the Elixar of the same goodnesse rendered of the same qualitie and propertie her charitie and Courtesie was large and open unto all I name these as strictures of that fire of zeale which she had to goodnesse She was not like those which esteeme themselves onely members and others but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 apostems congenite and connaturall partes with themselves her zeale was farre from being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a bitter zeale such as we see in some like a salt-light which burnes indeed but spits withall while she had health she made advantage therof thus to demeane her selfe not deferring the taking up of good purposes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. Greg Naz till the artlesse Physitian takes upon him to dispense what houres of life and continance he pleaseth unto us weighing us out either sicknesse or health with his severe-rod and commonly discoursing and concluding of the disease that brought death after death it selfe But the greatest part of her life was a Parasceue a preparation to her dissolution as if she had beene sensible that as Christ dyed upon the parasceue the day of preparation so none have any advantage by the death of Christ but those which premit such a preparation before their owne death and dissolution Is it not admirable that she who had runne through some hard lessons in the Schoole of affliction loved the rod so for the healing and sanctifying benefit which she found in it that it was her frequent prayer that God would be pleased when he called her hence he would be pleased to call her by a consumption rather then by any other way And accordingly it was so she conceived that many had been shaken with the whirlwinde of a convulsion and perhaps the Lord God was not in that winde many consumed with the fire of adustion and choller perhaps the Lord God was not in that fire but whereas many have beene summoned away by the still soft voice of consumption the Lord God is frequently in that voyce And certainly the Lord supported her the Lord perfected his strength in her weaknes for she susteined that afflictiō with such admirable moderation with such strength and vigour of spirit that if any man had entred her Chamber if he had not read the truth of her sufferings in the decayes and weaknesse of her person hee would have thought there had been none sicke there whatsoever she suffered there was nothing in her mouth but thanks to that gracious hand which lay so light vpon her and made her suffer no more As before so in her sicknesse especially it was her uncessant practise to commend her selfe continually unto God and that in the most conceived and feeling formes in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Words winged with affection and zeale not like those Estriches wings wherewith our sluggish devotions are usually fledged which as the estriches make a faire offer at flying toward heaven but are held down by the grossnes of their bodies so howsoever we seeme to soare yet are we restrained by our carnall heavinesse But her wordes were winged so as to carry her spirit there where her hope was farre above the reach of Satan though he be planted high too as high as a Prince of the aire So that no marvell if her spirit during her last affliction were in such a composed settlednesse it was out of the enemies reach She was not in the aire lyable to be shaken with Tempests and windes but even in heaven it selfe which cannot be turmoyled with any such agitations She vsed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to seale vp her bosome against temptation by continuall prayer so that Satan durst not attempt her seeing what impression seeing whose Image and superscription she bore Hence was that often comfortable profession how firme and stedfast she found her faith yet shee was iealous of her selfe because shee seemed to finde no greater measure of sorrow in her selfe when shee looked backe from her future to her former life Put she ever used to accuse her want of sorrow with such a measure of sorrow as well witnessed the truth thereof For this respect she did with exceeding diligence search and with great Iudgement choose whatsoever the Scripture could afford her for the establishing of her Spirit and the building up of her assurance in the Lord Iesus committing with her owne hand even in ●●at weakenes●e to writing what she had observed and contin●ing that pr●ctise till within very few dayes before her death before which she became most peaceably setled and r●solved that God according to that of Greg Naz 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 God desireth that our hearts should be pricked but not stabbed thorough And her faith being thus strengthened and established by continuall prayer and hearing and by frequent communicating that Sacrament which Ignatius calls 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 she preserved it in such strength and vigor that the day of her dissolution I comming to her she professed that whatsoever her sufferings were yet she did nothing but claspe her selfe about her-sweet Saviour And againe the same day I see Satan hovering over me but though he be the Prince of the Ayre they are her owne words yet he doth but hover like a bird in the Ayre not being able to seize upon me I still feele the advantage And thus she passed as she was passing away in the same calme behaviour that she had ever shewed rendering her selfe into the Armes of her redeemer And she having lived thus and died thus now she is dead shall we thinke she doth not live No no! It is not impertinent what I have read in Spartian of Hadrian Signa mortis haec habuit Annulus sponte de digito delapsus est but the Ring of faith as Bernard calls it never slipped from her she tooke it with her to be maried for ever in it unto the Lambe who hath graven her in the palmes of his hands and hath set her as a Scale upon his Arme there to remaine for ever Vnto which honor the Lord with her bring us all that we may so live so die then so live for ever without dying any more Amen FINIS PErlegi hanc concionem funebrem in Cap. 11. St. Ioha 1. ver 25. in quâ nihil reperio bonis moribus aut sauae doctrinae contrarium quo minus cumutilitate publicâ imprimatur ita tamen ut si non intra tres menses proximè sequentes typis mandetur haec licentia sit omninò irrita Prid Calend. Iunii 1635 Guil Bray Iob. 29. 17. Iob. 20. 15. Es. 16. 19. Psal. 68. 20. Rom. 3. Ier. 20. Gen 17. Prov. 20. 6. Nazian Aug Col. 3. 1. Ioh. 5. 25. Act. 17. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Aug. 2 Sam 12. 1 Cor. 15. Es. 52. Es. 4. 1 Thes. 4. 17 Ps. 9. 17. Gr●g Tertull Hom Cyrill catech 18. Tertull Septuag Luke 16. Nazian Greg Naz Greg Naz Ignatius Epus de char chap 27.

A SERMON PREACHED AT ASHBY DE-LA-ZOVCH IN THE COVNTIE OF LEICESTER At the Funerall of the Truely Noble and Vertuous Lady ELIZABETH STANLEY one of the Daughters and Coheires of the Right Honourable FERDINAND late Earle of Derby and late Wife to HENRIE Earle of Huntingdon the Fifth Earle of that Familie The 9. of February Anno Dom. 1633. By I. F. LONDON Printed by William Iones dwelling in Red-crosse streete 1635. AN EPITAPH VPON THE EXCELLENT COVNTESSE OF HVNTJNGDON THE cheife perfections of both Sexes joyn'd With neithers vice nor vanity combin'd Of this our age the wonder loue and care The example of the following and dispaire Such beauty that from all hearts loue must flow Such maiesty that none durst tell her so A wisdome of so large and potent sway Romes Senare might haue wisht her Conclaue may Which did to earthly thoughts so seldome bow Aliue She scarce was lesse in heaven then now So voyd of the least pride to her alone These radiant excellencies seem'd vnknowne Such once there was but let thy greife appeare Reader there is not Huntingdon lies here By him who saies what he saw FALKLAND A FVNERALL SERMON Iohn XI XXV He that Beleiveth in mee though he were Dead yet shall he liue THE hopes of those which are strangers unto the Covenants of promise cannot fixe any setled ayme and expectancie beyond the short line of life when that is drawne out unto the utmost point Death at the best is apprehended by them but as it was by Adrian to be incerta Peregrinatio a Race of very doubtfull issue doubtfull whether in the end thereof the head shall be crowned or cut off so that of all men most miserable that they are their hope is onely in this life Tantisper sperant dum spirant But the hope of the children of the promise doth not vanish into emptines with their breath etiam dum expirant sperant Though there be no more breath in their mouthes and their nostrills yet their hope is layd vp in their bosome Iob 29. Though we die yet saith Job We know that our Redeemer liveth Though we be hid and closed vnder the ground like the seed in the garden bed yet he whom Mary saw like the Gardiner this Gardiner will looke that the seede shall have its spring againe He will saith the Prophet poure vpon vs a dew like the dew of bearbes and the earth shall yeeld forth her dead And of thus much doth he here ass●re the sister of Mary who was almost as deepely swallowed vp of griefe as her deceased brother Lazarus was of the Grave Comfort thy selfe Martha he shall rise againe and doubt not Martha I my selfe am the Resurrection and the life the issues of Death belong unto me The keyes of the Grave are at my Girdle and he that beleeveth in me Though he were dead yet shall he live The wordes are in summe a Stipulatio Conventionalis consisting of a 1. condition 2. promise 1. First the Condition thus insinuated He that beleeveth 2. the promise thus proposed and pronounced though he were dead yet shall he live First The Condition upon which the promise is suspended is faith that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that fulnesse of our hopes that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that solace of our lives as Philo calleth it nay that our life it selfe or at least that upon which our life lies for by it the just shall live or by nothing He that beleeveth in me and he onely that beleeveth he shall live And here seeing this Action is so properly specified by its object we may observe That the principall obiect of our faith is God considered in the unitie of his essence and a Trinity of persons and therefore in the Symboll of our beleife the Creede is there a particular Credo or at least the particle in premitted apart before every one of the three persons importing that upon them we fixe and build our first assent and assurance As for those other subordinate principles of our faith such as concerne the Catholique Church the Communion of Saints these being but Creatures are not assented unto for themselves but for God the uncreate and first truth and therefore have no such Credo nor particle set apart before them but onely prefixed before one of the three persons Now this obiect of our faith is considered diversly either as the Act of beliefe and assent hath respect unto the understanding and in that consideration the obiect of faith is twofold either formall in which respect the Act of Faith is credere Deo we beleeving God as the first truth and for him fixing a setled assent upon all second and subordinate truthes they be the maine Characters of divinity Power and wisdome imprinted on them apparently manifesting the hand the finger of the Lord to have written them Or else it is materiall and so the Act of faith is credere Deum we that beleeve beleeve that God is and that he is a rewarder of those that seeke him Or secondly the obiect of faith is considered as the Act of beleefe and assent hath respect unto the will moveing the understanding to render its assent and in this respect the Act of faith is Credere in Deum as it is here delivered for the will having pitched the end of all its hopes in the goodnesse of this exceeding rich and precious promise uncessantly plyeth the understanding to give its assent to the truth of that which so much imports and concernes its peace and satisfaction And these different considerations doe not importe any such various difference of the Acts of faith but rather signifie the divers respects of one and the same Act unto the obiect of faith The summe of all may be collected thus First we beleeve that God is and a rewarder of all those that seeke him 2. We beleeve his counsells and Covenants manifested and dispensed unto us 3. We beleeve in him adhaere unto him relie on him our Soule being with absolute Complacencie satisfied in him cryeth out Pars mea Dominus It is enough the Lord is my portion how then can I lacke any thing we give our assent unto his counsells and Covenants because we are assured that in what he delivereth or promiseth he is wise and cannot be deceived himselfe he is faithfull and will not deceive us Though we discerne a propension and flexiblenesse in our selves to waver with every contrarie Ayre yet let God be true though all men be lyars The Aegyptians as Aquinas notes adventured to make the promise alterable I know not what feates they had like unto those of their moderne counterfeits to play fast and loose with such a firme and sealed knot as this But whatsoever they we saith the Apostle beleeve what we know and we know whom we have beleeved and if we be deceived certainely as the Prophet saith Thou Lord hast deceived us But God for bid saith Abraham the father of all beleevers

is resolute that it is preserved for us of our love which upon these well-grounded perswasions is continually running in a cheerefull prosecution and chase thereof My beloved though we have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 earth to our father and dust to our Sire yet let us not have 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dust-creeping soules surely our hope is higher then the dust let our conversation then be as high as our hope is Though we be made of the earth yet we are not made for the Earth We may observe that he that requires the erection of our affections doth with great iealousie withdraw from us all those ensnarements upon which they may fasten here below He is such a Bridegrome as will not that we preferre the king before himselfe this circle the world before the compasse of his Armes All these counterfeit delights which this empty dust is able to yeeld us they are as of purpose made either not to rellish at all with us by reason of their shortnesse and fleetingnesse or to distate us by the admixture of some calamitie and Bitternesse for if we will be children in understanding insteed of being children in Innocency if we will still be sucking here we must be used as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 great babes we must have the breast be smeared and sowred to weane out childish longing from it But the withdrawing of any of these earthly things from us doth not so much withdraw us from the Earth as the calling away of those deare-ones in whose bloud or love we have any interest the wives of our youthes the children of our delight These are they with whom we reioyced and they being gone the remainder of our life seemes bitter unto us and we thinke with our selves what further use is there of us or what portion have we left upon the Earth we crie like children that have their delights and rattles taken from them And at last as when the nurse makes the child beleev she hath layed them in the Cradle to sleepe the childe cries to sleepe likewise that he may be neere them so we when our deare ones are layed downe and composed in their beds of dust we are weary of waking any longer our eyes grow as heavy as our hearts we see nothing to reioyce in or take comfort in we desire as Iacob to goe downe to the grave to our sonnes we desire to sleepe by the sides of our beloved ones that with them we may awake againe after the likenesse of him who layeth us and them unto our rest and shall raise us againe unto our refreshing Thus should ye Right Honorable looke after this renowned Ladie who is now composed unto her rest in the Bed of Earth suspiring and longing after the same refreshing the same hope that hope which is now no lōger hope with her but sight and sense possession it selfe But if you would have your soule find the same rest with hers let your soule seek it as she did If with her you would find the kingdome of God seek with her the Righteousnes therof Let us awhile looke into the Grave with which these deare ashes are entrusted for in that house 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as the Septuagint reades that of Eccles 13. Though the Grave be the house of death yet we shall derive from hence an example of a gracious life and of such a death as undoubtedly ushers in a glorious life Anciently there were great treasures hid in the Sepulchres of great ones if we looke into this we shall finde a treasure too a treasure of rich example to us all As she was derived of a very noble princely extraction so she ennobled her selfe much more by endevouring to assure her selfe of her regeneration and adoption than by her birth That was the honor by which she valued her selfe and indeede the true and genuine Honor of you all Right Honorable He that called Abraham father was everlastingly accursed because God was not his father It is a good observation of Philo upon that of Gen 6. These are the Generations of Noah Noah was a iust man and walked with God c. Moses saith he setting downe Noahs Genealogie insteed of recounting his Ancestors reckoneth his vertues It were easie for me to name many noble names like unto these to prove that nobility by which she esteemed her selfe principally honored She had a mind of a most excellent cōposure of a noble generous height but attempered with an admirable sweetnesse and humility so that I may affirme that she made use of the greatnesse of her Spirit in nothing so much as either in the magnanimous contempt of unworthy iniuries for some such were aymed at her though none could fasten her vertue had so Oyled her name that no Inke would sticke upon it or else in the patient tollerating of worldly occurrences and afflictions and of them she made this happy advantage that as a thred besmeared with any filth must be drawne through some narrow hole for the cleering of it so the pressure of some afflictions seemed to cleere her from many corruptions through which nature custome and fashion and greatnesse do yet draw the lines of others lives Her understanding was of great perspicacity and as she fayled not to imploy the same for the comprehending of such occasions and affaires as might advantage susteine the estate of her house and procure and reinforce the content and comfort of her noble Lord So principally she directed the strength thereof for the enabling her selfe with the knowledg of the misteries of Redemption her delight was in the law of God she was an unwearied reader of the Oracles of Gods sacred word she that aimed at a living againe though she must die sought not the tree of the knowledge of good and evill which made us all obnoxious to die but the Tree of the knowledge of God which is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Tree of life it selfe as Thala●ius calls it in Biblioth Patrum And as she had the knowledge of truth to give light unto her Religion so she had the truth of Religion to give life unto her knowledge I make no doubt but the State thereof hath beene much advanced by her instruction and incouragement in this house which hath beene long honoured for honouring of God It hath pleased her Lord more then once to make profession not onely what refreshing her comforts what support her Counsells have brought him but now much he hath in the estate of the minde beene bettered by her I am perswaded they have beene 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yoke-fellowes in this worke I trust they shal be hereafter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 fellow heires of one and the same Grace From him and her selfe she made a diffusion of her goodnesse to all hers educating them in such puritie and inocency as is admirable in those who I know not how are lyable to be betraved by their Birthes and fortunes