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truth_n	scripture_n	true_a	word_n	7,817	5	4.4125	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44075	Two consolatory letters written to the right honorable the Countess of Westmorland The first upon the occasion of the death of Sr Roger Townshend, Baronet: the second upon the death of Mrs Anne Cartwright, Her Honour's children by Sir Roger Townshend, Baronet, her former husband.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing H2324B; ESTC R218018	16,407	30

would make it her business to plead the Cause of the Poor that were sick in the Town and procured sometimes as good Advice for them for nothing as she had her self for Fees Nor yet did the Doctors lose all their Alms this way for she had such an excellent Receit-Book or Store-house of Remedies that she could and did thence sometimes impart to the Physicians as good Counsel as they gave their Patients either with or without a Fee And here give me leave to tell your Ladiship what a Student your Daughter was in the best of Receit-Books the Book of Books the Holy Bible Out of this Dispensatory as the Learned Scribe out of his Treasure she could bring things new and old Salves for the worst that is Soul-Diseases She was a daily reader and due reverencer of the Sacred Scripture She was so great a Proficient in it that she could discourse of the History argue about the Points of Doctrine contained and matter of Duties required in it with Ministers and Doctors She was a Champion for the Truth and was able to chuse such smooth Stones out of this pure Cristal Brook the Holy Scripture and to sling them so as to strike the stoutest Goliah of the Romish Philistines in the fore-head When once there was a discourse with a Papist concerning the lawfulness of Priests Marriage how quickly and appositely did she alledg that of the Apostle Paul to Timothy A Bishop must be the Husband of one Wife 2 Tim. 3.2 Had she lived in former Ages she might better for her knowledg have been admitted into the Council than those Women we read of in our Church-Histories and particularly in Sir Henry Spelman his Conc. Tom. 1. p. 19. She was zealous for the Honour and Authority of the Holy Scripture she liked not that Wits should shew their folly as many too too often do in carping at and criticizing against the Contents of it When any Question in Religion was moved or started she would appeal from Man's Testimony to God's and would have it tried and judged by that and as of old they used to ask Counsel at Abel and so end the Matter or Controversie so was she for having all disputes in Religion to be decided by the Scripture to ask Counsel at that and so to end the Matter or Controversie She had her Senses exercised to discern betwixt Truth and Falshood 'twixt good and bad Doctrine Her Ear could tast words whether sound or unsound as her Pallat meats whether savoury or unsavoury and having tasted the goodness of true Religion she could be zealous for it I remember once I being in dispute with a Romanist and he charging me to be hot she standing by replied suddenly Why should not he be as zealous for his Religion as you are for yours If you ask me how she came to be mighty in the Scriptures with Apollos and to know the way of God so perfectly with Aquilla and Priscilla I answer Her delight was in the Law of God and in that did she read day and night She spent more time daily in adorning her Soul than her Body and made more use of the Scriptures than of any other Mirrour whatsoever She did write many Volumes of Sermons which she heard preached and she read many Printed ones and other Treatises of Divinity which she bought Her daily converse was with good Christians and good Books the Lord's Day she made a Market-day for her soul a Feast a good day for her soul She made Conscience of spending the Lord's Day and would be troubled when hindred from a spiritual improvement of it and complain at night she had lost a day She scrupled unnecessary sending her Servants abroad on that day or uncharitable keeping them at home and debarring them the liberty of hearing God's Word She offered the sacrifice of Prayer for her Children like Job Resolved that no ungodly swearing or drunken persons should tarry in her house like David And again with Joshua That she and her House would serve the Lord. She was for the Marrow Quintessence the Life and Soul of Religion not only zealous for or against Ceremonies but for the substance of God's Worship and Service She had I think a good if not the best temper viz. an indifferent temper as to things indifferent in Religion She refused not to hear Divine Service read though in a Surplice nor a Bishop preach though in a Rochet and yet was not for persecuting those who really scrupled either having a tender Conscience her self though not a scrupulous one She was very tender of pressing upon others Consciences She was not like those narrow Souls who like or love none but of their own Way or Party Humour or Fancy but had a general kindness for good Christians of all Perswassons She loved indeed sound solid and affectionate Preaching she liked not a Minister should freeze in his Study all the Week and sweat in the Pulpit on the Lord's Day nor that he should sweat in his Study and freeze in the Pulpit nor without good reason for that which comes from the heart is most likely to go to the heart and he that is most perswaded of and affected with what he speaks himself is most likely to perswade and affect others And as she had chosen her daily-walk in the King of Heaven's High-way her self so did she desire not to go alone but in company and in the company of her nearest Relations Children and Servants She taught her Daughter that was capable of learning the fear of the Lord to read the Scriptures to learn her Catechism to pray betimes and she made it her great request upon her Death-bed That her Children might be brought up religiously and disposed of when fit for marriage rather into good than great Families Religion was alive in her and she was not willing it should dye with her but be propagated and flourish in the Family when she was dead She professed a great love to Truth and 't is the Character which the God of Truth gives to his People They will not lye though they be belyed by the Father of Lyes and falsly reported of to the contrary The Law of Chastity was in her Looks and in her Lips I never heard an obscene impure word come out of her Lips She could blush for other Women that could not for themselves Her care was for her self and her counsel to others To avoid not only shame but blame and not only all faults but suspition and not only to do no evil but not to be thought to do any She used neither Art nor Sin to make her appear beautiful nor any rich and costly attire to make her brave Her Apparel and Dress was rather below than above her Estate and Quality She was a lover of her Friends and would deny her self to serve and help them She would own a Friend in Adversity She was not as many great ones are so high as to despise a Relation in a low