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truth_n	hear_v	speak_v	word_n	7,138	5	4.4441	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A17079	The vertuous daughter A sermon preached at Saint Maries in Warwicke, at the funerall of the most vertuous and truely religious young gentlewoman, Mistresse Cicely Puckering, daughter and co-heire to the right worshipfull, Sir Thomas Puckering, knight and baronet, the fourteenth day of Aprill, 1636. By Iohn Bryan, parson of Barford.	Bryan, John, d. 1676.	1636 (1636)	STC 3955; ESTC S114258	15,760	30

onely the common sort of men but also Magistrates and men in high place will commend and encourage us The Apostle Paul saith that Rulers are not a terrour to good workes but to evill Rom. 13. ● will thou then not be afraid of the power doe that which is good and thou shalt have praise for the same To come to the occasion in hand for I must wave all other generall uses for want of time by this that hath been said it may appeare that I have warrant sufficient signed with Gods owne hand to speake in the praise and commendation of this young Gentlewoman whose funerall rites wee now celebrate forasmuch as she hath deserved praise having not onely done vertuously but excelled all others of her sexe and age take them both together that I ever heard or knew of for when shee dyed shee was little more then twelve yeares of age And besides all that hath beene spoken for the lawfulnesse and conveniencie of this practise of praising the dead I have for my patterne and precedents herein not onely many late divines who have in those funerall Sermons which they preached at the burials of godly persons beene exceeding large in their commendations and were never yet excepted against for flattery But also many antient Fathers who not onely in their consolatory Letters written to them which lost their friends have inserted large praises of them but also in their Sermons at their funerals have done the like Among others Ierome is most noted who although he call flatterers sparkles of the divell Scin●llo● Diaboli yet none ever more exceeded in the commendation of any then he of that vertuous and godly Matron Paula both in his Sermon which he preached at her buriall in Bethlehem in a very great assembly of sundry nations and also in his Epistle written ad Eustochium which hee entituleth the Epitaph of Paula Aquin. 2 2● qu. 132. True it is as they teach in Schooles that to praise a man for that which is not praise worthy or more then is meet or not for a right end is sinfull and cannot be justified but with due cautions to commend cannot be justly censured I will not therefore put on that resolution which Cicero once did I will not said he be a prais●r Nol● esse laudator ne videar adulator lest I should seeme a flatterer for so I should not onely wrong the dead in robbing her of her due honour although she being received into the society of Saints in heaven needeth not our praises more than our prayers but I should also deale perfidiously both with God and you First with God Mat. 5.15 in hiding a glorious candle under a bushell which he lighted for others to see and worke by and whose command to his Apostles I have just cause in this case to apply to my selfe Mat. 10. ●7 What I tell you in darkenesse that speake ye in light and what ye heare in the eare that preach upon the houses Secondly with you in keeping from you that pretious treasure which may haply enrich you for ever One compares the words of Saints to pure silver the more you have of them the wealthier you are Mat. 7.6 Pro. 25.11 Our Saviour cals them pearles and Salomon sayes they are like apples of gold in pictures of silver Sure I am all that heard this childe speake oft in her health but especially the day before and that they shod died as the sun shines most gloriously at his sorting did wonder at her gratious words and might well say never childe spake like this childe so that we who heard her utter such divine saying● so roundly and in such an emphaticall manner were forced to cry c●●● Doubtlesse wee have heard strange things to day Neither can it ●e doubted but that the promise which Christ made to his Apostles was in a degree made good unto her It shall be given you what ye shall speak● Ma● 13.11 for it is not you that speake but the holy Ghost You know our Saviours saying to the Pharise● teaching us thereby to judge of the heart by the mouth i●●he life give not the tongue the lye Mat. 11.34.35 Out of the aboundance of the heart the 〈…〉 speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things The good things which this deare Hand-maid of the Lord brought out of the treasure of her heart argued it to be truely good 2 Pet. 1.5 6.7 The chaine of Christian graces spoken of by Peter did adorne and beautifie her sweet spirit neither was any one linke of that golden chaine wanting in her as might easily be evinced by demonstrative evidences But my purpose is onely to instance in three of those graces whereof when ye have heard undoubted proof ye may then doe like him who by the length and bignesse of Hercules his foot Agellius l. 1. c. 1. gathered the proportion of his whole body The graces or vertues I shall instance in are knowledge piety and patience they are the Cardinall graces on which all others hang and turne and these were very evidently discernable in her even to such as had but halfe an eye And first to give some evidences of her knowledge the Apostle taxeth certaine women in his time who were alwayes learning 2 Tim. 3.7 and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth whom he therefore calleth silly women She was none of those women but might truely say with David J have more understanding than all my teachers Psal 119.99 100. J understand more then the Ancients And the truth of this appeareth by the confession of her best teachers that they never received so much edification by any of her yeares as by her words as also of the Doctour that was with her who professed that hee never heard any childe speake with more judgement in all his life She did indeed desire to be instructed by mee her words were these J pray you tell mee what course I shall take to live this short time that I have to live as I ought Deare soule I needed to receive instruction of thee God saw my need and therefore sent me seasonably unto thee and I have learned of thee better then ever I did before both how to live and dye happily The Apostle exhorts us to be children in malice 1 Cor. 14.20 not so in understanding But oh that we were all like this childe in understanding For such was her knowledge farre beyond her yeares not confused but distinct not swelling but humbling not like the light of the Moon but of the Sunne a favorie affecting and hearing knowledge it warmed her owne heart and ours also Take one proofe of her knowledge in religion long before her sicknesse When the Nurses childe in the house was drowned and the Mother mourned sore for it she gave her this grave counsell Seeing Gods will is done in taking away your childe