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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46825	A sermon preached at the funeral of the right honble the Lady Frances Paget, the religious consort of the right honble William Lord Paget, (eldest daughter to the right honourable Henry Earl of Holland, who was beheaded for his loyalty to this King) in the parish-church of West-Drayton in the county of Middlesex, on the 12th of Nevember, 1672. By Jehu Jenny, M.A. and Vicar of Harmondsworth.	Jenney, John, d. 1697.	1673 (1673)	Wing J673A; ESTC R220733	15,009	28

of God this good Lady had it To her now disconsolate Lord she was such a wife as Solomon describes Pro. 31.12 she will do him good all the daies of her life to her Children a tender and indulgent Mother to her Servants a loving and kind Mistress But there were among many other three eminent vertues in this excellent Person which should I not mention besides a great injustice to the dead in suffering her name to dye I should wrong the living of a worthy example her Piety her Charity her Patience and Christian Magnanimity I. I begin at the House of God where she so delightted to be her Piety And in this she was not new-fangled as the Age but old-fashioned Her Religion was not a bare shew or an empty noise only that of the tongue or an outside paint but her Piety was solid and substantial even and uniform that which exerted it self in the fruits of a good life As to the external acts of Divine Service and Worship she was most frequent in them she seldom took up with so little as David's morning evening and noon but very often came up to the Psalmist's highest Pitch of devotion of praying to and praising of God seven times in the day besides her publique and closet-devotions she constantly attended on the morning and evening sacrifice of her family in which she gave a most eminent example the sticking of a pin or the laying of a hair kept her not till the service was half over but her zeal for the service of God made her careless of what habit or dress she came in rather then stay away or come tardy her exceeding devotion carried her to Davids pious option to enjoy the Door-keepers place to be first in and last out of the House of God And truly she was of Joshua's sociable temper she was for I and my house will serve the Lord. Her servants never met with greater displeasure or more severe chiding from her than for the neglect of their duty to God II. As her Piety was great so her Charity was large As God had given her the riches of this world so the knew full well that she had more in her Custody than was her own the poor's portion she look't upon her self as the Almighty's Almoner and understood it his pleasure she should dispense bountifully An empty belly a naked back or the sores of an helpless Lazar were such oratory as ever prevail'd for her relief I am confident there be many here weeping as the Widows over Dorcas Acts. 9. that can shew the coats and garments she provided for them and who were cloathed and fed by her bounty She might justly have made the protestation of Job If I have seen any perish for want of cloathing or any poor for want of covering if his loynes have not blessed me and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep Job 31.19.20 She was wise in her Charity and understood her own interest well and knew that such sowing brought in a plentiful crop a great encrease that she should make a great return for all she thus laid out and should be reimbursed with an interest infinitely above the principal when her Lord at the last day shall publiquely read her layings out Hungry and ye fed me thirsty and ye gave me drink naked and ye cloathed me 3. Her Patience and Christian Magnanimity And here I may well truly break forth in admiration as th● Father upon the story of the Woman of Canaan Mira re● evangelista mulier non mulier c. O wonderful a woman and more then a woman Troubles afflictions she had what Saint ever had not indeed how could her vertue have been so bright and eminent without them But her deportment under them was admirable her trust and confidence in God so stayed her up that she could be fervent and compos'd in he devotions and chearful in her family when the greatest pressures lay upon her nay to the former they did ever add vigour and activity If at any time the waves came so thick upon her that she found her self with Peter ready to sink she quickly catch't hold of a sure stay and recovered her self with David's reasoning in the like extremity Ps 43. ver ult Why art thou cast down O my soul still put thy trust in God The meditations of an holy man upon which place of Scripture she very often had recourse unto Dr. Sibbs upon that text To hasten There were two circumstances about the death of this eminent Saint I must not omit About a fortnight before she dy'd she desired the holy Sacrament at my hands which I gave her the Sunday following all the week before notwithstanding her great bodily weakness with great devotion she was present at the prayers of her family and after that continued her attendance to the very last This Coelestial Banquet so refresh'd her soul that the joyes and satisfaction she then possest were a happy anticipation a delicious fore-taste of that Heaven from which she was not to be long absent and here her good nature and Christian Charity took an occasion to express it self in being kindly angry with some of her Servants for their neglect of that opportunity of coming to the Lords Supper and so not sharing with her in so great a comfort and happiness She that had been a careful observer of the Lords day in her life hasted early on that day to the celebration of an eternal Sabbath in the Heavens In a word Departed about two a-clock on sunday morning as if in the language of David concerning God's house she had said of her little Sanctuary Here will I dwel for I have a delight therein But a few hours before she departed this life she was at prayers with the family at the Chappel and I doubt not but after that in her greatest Agonies and extremity which lasted not very long she had pious Ejaculations and holy Soliloquies her Lord found her so doing and she is now in possession of the blessedness of the Text. Where let us leave her and give me leave to address my self in two words I. To her near and dear Relations I dare not forbid you the shedding of some tears to the memory of so precious a Saint and good a Mother but I beg you to moderate them with your Christian hopes Your loss is great and truly so is mine though I must not equal it and so is her death to all that had the honour and happiness of her acquaintance But if you have one eye upon your loss let your other be upon her gain her advantage her happiness methinks she bespeaks you Daughters weep not for me but for yourselves and Children and look upon her death not so much a loss neither as a short privation of her company consider her non amissam sed praemissam not lost only gone a little before to that Rest we all labour after II. And to all that are here present that knew her let me beg you to let her memory be precious with you let her vertues never dye but be perswaded to an imitation of them fix this great example continually before your eye I conclude all with the exhortation of the Apostle Phil. 4.8 Finally Brethren whatsoever things are true whatsoever things are honest whatsoever things are just whatsoever things are pure whatsoever things are lovely whatsoever things are of good report if there be any vertue and if there be any praise think on these things and do them that when our Lord shall come he may find us so doing and pronounce us blessed FINIS