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A39911	Hēsychia Christianou, or, A Christian's acquiescence in all the products of divine providence opened in a sermon, preached at Cottesbrook in Northampton-Shire, April the 16, 1644, at the interment of the Right Honourable, and eminently pious lady, the Lady Elizabeth Langham, wife to Sir James Langham Kt. / by Simon Ford ...	Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.	1665 (1665)	Wing F1485; ESTC R10829	91,335	258

we might these Wonders see Princely Grandeur crown'd with Humility Beauty with Learning Wealth with wisdom shin'd And piety so kept Court within her Mind That if for lost Religion we should look In her Life we might Read the Holy Book And if for banish'd Modesty wee 'd seek We might behold it blushing in her Cheek Her Temp'rance too was much her Charity more 'T was Meat and Drink to Her to feed the Poor And with her Alms such Counsel she would give As might at once make Soul and Body live Publick and Private she ne're drew in Air But what went out in holy Word or Prayer With this she Honor'd all her Honors and Enrich'd your Family more than all your Land Others are Glorious from their Ancestrie But she Ennobled Her Nobilitie That Wife which Famous Overburie writ With Height of Judgment Eloquence and wit Was but a Type of her who can alone Be Peer'd with the Elect Lady of St. John Whose praise is better Preach'd than Poem'd forth No Verse but what 's a Text can reach her Worth Our Meeters added to this Sermon sound Like Sternhold's Rhimes with th' Holy Bible bound I 'l borrow then Words from the Preaching King And with His Hallow'd Truth Her Glory sing Many a Daughter hath done vertuously Prov. 31. 29 But she excell'd them all I might apply Much of that Chapter to Her as a Wife Who acted what is writ there to the Life R West D. 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On the death of the truly Noble and Vertuous LADY ELISABETH Wife to Sir JAMES LANGHAM Knight Who dyed great with Child Could Beauty Wealth Wit Learning Grace or Birth Free any one from death thy life would have Been lasting as thy Fame nor had the Earth And Heav'n call'd back the Jewel that they gave But ah alas such noble Souls as thine Dwell in as crazy cottages as ours Yea being fram'd of mold more pure and fine They are less able to brook storms and showrs Hence Thou art gone betimes and we remain A while behind here to condole our loss To celebrate thy memory and complain That want of such as Thee 's our greatest cross But Thou sweet Infant losest nought at all But gainest by thy Mothers early death Her womb 's thy tomb thou hast a funeral Before a birth and dy'st ere thou draw'st breath Thus without knowledge of this gloomy shade Wherein we sadly wander up and down Thou a quick passage unto Heav'n hast made And without sweat or toil hast got the Crown Let not surviving Friends then take 't amiss Because they saw thee not to ripeness grown For thou art ripe before them and in bliss Longing to see them also wear the Crown Anthony Scattergood D. 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STemmata imaginibus titulis distincta Coronis Inclyta quam decorant Ornant quam propria virtus Quam pietas quam Relligio mens para fidesque Conjuge quae fulget cui par vix contigit ulli Conjuge qui gaudet cui par vix contigit ulli Quam cito quam subito nobis erepra parenti Eximiae chara Eximio perchara marito Ereptam eheu lugemus lugemus ademptam Terris aethereas sedes gaudemus adeptam Comprime nunc lachrymas ergo moestissime conjux Comprime nunc lachrymas ergo maestissima mater Terreno sponso Terrena matre relictis Coelesti sponso Coelesti patre potita Coelieolas inter sedet aeternumque sedebit Pauculis hisce versibus lectissimae Illustrissimae Nobilissimae Heroinae ELISABETHAE HASTINGIAE Celsissimi comitis Huntingdoniae Filiae Illustriss ac Nobiliss Viri Jacobi Langbamii equitis Aurati conjugi Londini parentabat Ludovicus Heraldus Ecclesiae Londino-Gallicae Ecclesiastes In Obitum ILLUSTRISSIMAe Heromae Dominae ELISABETAE HASTINGIAE Honoratissimi Comitis HUNTINGDONIAE Filiae Ad Illustrem ipsius Conjugem Dominum JACOBVM LANGHAM Equitem Auratum 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 LAnghamiae docus ornamentum gloria gentis O infignis Eques quo non infignior alter Magne opibus major virtutibus atque loquela Melliflua tibi quam donavit suada Latina Miraris moestus cur intra quatuor annos Vxores tibi fata duas in flebile mortis Imperium rapuere stupenti mente revolvis Tecum cur intra lustrum thalamus tuus orbus Bis sit qua caasa cogaris vivere solus Nil tamen est cur attonito Clarissime Langham Expendas animo fati decreta Deique Consilium sapiens quod sacra agitare marita Te prohibet nimium mirere Hymeneia festa Transivere cito paucisque potitus es annis Queis tibi subsidium Numen donarit amatae Vxoris quia nimirum meliore potiri Vita digna erat uxorum utraque Poma videre est Decidere arboribus cum sunt matura quid ergo Miri est si uxores ambas discedere mundo Videris aeternae matura erat utraque vitae Praeterea quae sunt in terris summa necesse est In pejus ruere ac retro sublapsa reserri Pancratica si quis fruitur valetudine parte Ex omni incolumis sanusque incesset acerbus Morbus eum pinguesque cito populabitut artus Febris sic cum quis foelix est atque beatus In terris quantum sors fert mortalis iniquum Adversumque illi casum fortuna minatur Nil ergo mirum tibi contigit aura secunda Afflabat tibi te vultu spectare sereno Sors dignabatur planè tibi nulla negarat Illorum vitam quae possunt reddere amoenam Dives erat clarus doctrina mactus honore * Londinum vocatur Augusta ab Ammiano Marcellino Missus ab Augusta fueras civitate Britanni Quae caput est orbis qua vix ingentior ulla est In toto mundo-quo ipsius nomine posses Omnia magnanimo vovere beata Monarchae Sub cujus tremit imperiis laeta triumphat Anglia quando ovaas Belgarum solvit ab oris Vt posset natale solim liberare Tyrannis Sub quibus ingemutt saevos tolerando lahores Angligentsque suis dominari legibus aequis Gaudens inde novo cumulatus honore redisti Cuncta videbatur tibi tum promittere fansta Fatum sed subito letho tibi tollitur uxor Quae nunquam laudata satis quamquam monumentum Nobile fecit ei Reverendus Episcopus ille Nordovicum quem relligio doctrinaque summa Commendant qui sacrorum ex ordine Patrum Esse merabatur quos fulgens infula vestit Et quorum regitur prudenti Ecclesia cura Placata dein sorte fuit tibi reddita conjux Altera quae potuit desiderium omne prioris Ex animo delere tuo charaeque Mariae Te facere omnino immemorem nam gloria sexus Faeminei dici poterat perfecta sue quantum Vlla sit inter eas quae gaudent lumine sanè Elisabeta tua omnigeno splendore micabat Et quae faelices factunt collectatenebat Stemmate fulgebat quo vix illustrius ullum Nata erat antiquo magnatum sanguine vixit Nobilis ingenio meritis virtutibus atque Sincera pietate ut

so My next business therefore shal Directions be to give thee such Directions by the practise whereof thou mayest advance towards and in time arrive at this noble pitch 1. First then thou must Love God sincerely not only for what thou receivest and expectest from him but also and principally for what thou seest and accordingly adorest in him And labour to improve the Love thou hast for him into an intimate acquaintance and friendship with him For hereby thou wilt grow so far satisfied in him that thou wilt be assured he neither can nor will order any thing that befalls thee otherwise than may stand with thy best advantage thy heart will rest securely in him and thou wilt not find a place in thy bosom for suspicion or censure of any thing he doth yea thou wilt be studious to please and approve thy self to him in all things and think nothing thou hast too dear for him to dispose of at his pleasure which he will vouchsafe to call for or make use of but rather as we use to express our selves to our intimate friends when they have occasion for any thing in our possession thou wilt tell him from thy heart that thou art heartily glad thou hadst it for him 2. Interpret Gods providences candidly Take every thing from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Epict. C. 65. him by the best Handle If any better construction than other can be made of his dealings take hold of that and therewithal silence thy passionate prejudices and mis-representations that art apt to mislead thee What a false glass is to a beautiful face and the moved water to a streight staff that is prejudicate opinion to the best of Gods Actions There is a rare Beauty in all Providences as God orders them Eccles 3. 11. do you but hang them in a good light and wipe your eies from all infectious tinctures of prepossession and they will appear no less amiable to you than they are in themselves 3. Desire moderately For what we have an immoderate appetite unto as the Israelites to flesh Num. 11. 13. and an inordinate longing for as Rachel for Children Gen. 30. 1. we are apt to over-expect what we over-expect if we attain it we are prone to over-love and if we miss of attaining it or lose it again when attained to over-grieve And then do our discontents advance themselves upon our disappointments and an hundred to one if while in our unbounded passions we fling about us like enraged beasts we dash not some dirt in the face of God the Author as well as on the persons and things which he makes use of as the Instruments of our Defeats No man knows what a black train of daring impieties may be at the heels of any inordinate desire even such as if he were told of before that is most favourable to himself when transported to them he would bless himself from the very thought of them 4. Maintain a noble and heroical Faith in God both concerning the affairs of this life so far as they fall under Divine Promises and those of the Life to come And because the security you have for both is not alike you must principally fix your confidence in that which relates to your Souls and their concernments and then having raised a well grounded assurance concerning them you will the more easily quench those sparks of unbelief which are apt to disquiet you in reference to affairs of an inferiour nature For he that can deposite his soul with God being assured with the blessed Apostle 2 Tim. 1. 12. that he will 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 keep that important pledge faithfully will easily trust and acquiesce in him for all other things For will any man distrust him for Counters whom he intrusts with Gold and Pearls And hence it will follow that the more nobly and generously your Faith in all things rests in God the more full and clear will your satisfactions be concerning him in all his dealings so that you will not be easily shaken in your expectations from him or debauched into misconstructions of him yea love joy and delight in him will act as high as our Faith even in defiance of all appearing contradictions and impossibilities So was it with the Church Hab. 3. 17 18. Although the Fig-tree shall not blossom neither shall fruit be in the Vine the labour of the Olive shall fail and the fields shall yield no meat the flock shall be cut off from the fold and there shall be no heard in the stalls yet will I rejoice in the Lord and joy in the God of my salvation 5. Remember what you have received from God gratefully and compare it with what you want or lose which if you do you will find upon account a thousand mercies it may be to one or two in considerable crosses What the Moralist tells us is the too common fault of Ambition that non respicit it looks with envy at those few that are before but never looks back with gratitude at those many that in the Princes favour come behind thou mayest observe to be the fault of thy discontent it doth not respicere not look back upon the many mercies bestowed or the many other crosses escaped but only forward upon that one mercy or cross which it desires or eschews Could we keep an exact account of the various dealings of God with us all our life long and confront his afflicting with his obliging providences we should find abundance of cause to acknowledge even the most miserable term of life to be fuller of mercies than miseries as the Poet tells us that whoso compares the fair and foul daies of a year together Inveniet plures solibus esse dies Ovid. will find the fair daies to exceed in number Set the one against the other as Solomon saies of the daies of adversity and prosperity Eccles 7. 14. and thou wilt find nothing after him to carp or quarrel at He that will give God thanks for what he hath taken must according to Jobs order first consider what he hath given Job 1. 21. 6. State your own condition justly not measuring it by Phantasie but right Reason Opinion makes most men miserable who would not be so did they not conceive themselves to be so Whence Epictetus Tam miser est quisque quam credit Sen. Ep. 78. Ench. cap. 5. often before mentioned adviseth us to say to all the most frightful evils 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 thou that appearest so scaring a thing art not the evil indeed that thou seemost to be but the spectrum the phantosm the apparition thereof It is true which the Stoick will not allow that sickness poverty disgrace loss of Friends pain and death are not as he saies meer Phantosms of evil for they are really and indeed evils but thus far his words have an undoubted truth in them that our opinion makes them greater evils by far than they be the shape in which our abused phantasie