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woman_n	brother_n	father_n	sister_n	2,882	5	9.8000	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52013	A sermon in commemoration of the truely vertuous and religious gentlewoman, Mris. Elizabeth Dering wife of Mr. Charles Dering ... she departed this life at Pluckley in Kent the 26 day of July, 1640 / by Robert Marriot.	Marriott, Robert, 1608?-1689.	1641 (1641)	Wing M715; ESTC R28807	26,821	49

trembling preserve with Moses a pot of heavenly Manna in the Arke of your hearts and provide with Ioseph a store-house of spirituall food in your soules that you may live and not dye if God should withhold you from the benefit of his publicke Ordinances Fifthly to the Sydonians wisdom the wisdom of Peace Acts 12.20 It is reputed a great point of wisdome in them of Tyre and Sydon that having highly displeased King Herod they came with one accord and having made Blastus the Kings Chamberlaine their friend desired Peace because their Countrey was nourished by the Kings Countrey Let it be our care to goe and doe likewise wee have highly offended the great King of Heaven and Earth by our manifold sinnes and wickednesse having so long turned his grace into wantonnesse that we have now just cause to feare he will turne our peace into warre withall wee know it is not for us to strive with our maker for wee are nourished by him by him wee live and move and have our being Here then is our wisdome to make Christ Iesus the Kings Sonne our friend 2 Cor. 5.19 let us by timely repentance and faith reconcile our selves unto him and he will reconcile us to his Father Sixtly to Davids wisdome the wisdome of Piety Psalme 119.98 I have more wisdome then my teachers because I keepe thy Commandements The old word for righteousnesse is right wisenesse and it is a good one for the righteous man is the right wise man Otherwise how can they be wise sayes Ieremy since they have forsaken the law of their God you may see it in Achitophel his great wisdome unsanctified turned to his destruction In the fourth of Deuteronomy the 6. Moses there tells Israel that the keeping of Gods Commandements would be their Wisdome in the sight of the people and their observance of his Statuts would get them such renowne that all the Nations round about would say surely this great Nation is a wise and understanding people I have read of one who towards his end sequestring himselfe from the cares and affaires of the world and betaking him to a religious course of life a friend of his after some time coming to visit him would needs know of him how being unlettered as hee was hee could possibly spend his time in that solitude to whom hee replied that since hee had devoted himselfe to that way he had learnt three letters which tooke up his whole time The first hee said was a Blacke letter and that put him in mind of his sinnes and some of his time hee spent here in sorrowing and bewayling his transgressions and repenting for them The second was a Red letter and this minded him of the Passion and sufferings of his Saviour which while he laboured by Faith to apply to himselfe did employ another part of his time and the third was a Golden letter which remembred him with the joyes of Heaven and the happinesse of Gods Elect after this life and the Meditation of this tooke up the rest of his thoughts And indeed hee that hath learnt these three letters well is a good Scholler though he have learned no more for by these he shall learne to feare God and the feare of God sayes David is the beginning of wisdome Ps ni 10. yea and the end too Eccl. 12.13 for Salomons tells us to feare God and to keepe his Commandments is the whole duty of man With this then will I end the Text and blessed shall wee bee if wee can all of us so end our time viz. in the feare of God which that wee may the better doe I pray for my selfe and you as Moses for himselfe and Israel Lord so teach us to number our dayes that we may apply our hearts unto Wisdome Amen Thus having done with my Text I suppose it may bee in the next place expected that I should in particular adde something of the party for whose sake and for yours this Sermon is composed This employment is not without hazard and as Pericles well expressed it Apud Thucyd. The Auditors will hardly be satisfied For the neere friends to the deceased and such as love their memory will thinke all too little when others who are either ignorant of her vertues or envious at all praise will thinke all too much And my selfe the performer may bee thought by some in one place Frigide laudare and by others in another place nimis adulari on the one side blamed with partiality on the other blasted with flattery I have usually been very sparing in exercises of this nature referring the Encomion of the dead unto the words of Solomon Proverb 31.31 Laudent eam in portis facta ejus Let their owne works praise them Being in this point very Tender and scrupulous how I doe expose either them or my selfe to censure Neverthelesse I cannot deny but that this Ceremony in it selfe is both antient and imitable amongst Gods people wee read how David prayses Abner and celebrats his funerall 2 Sam. 3. How hee commends Saul and Ionathan and how the Canonicall Scripture keeps the Record of it 2 Sam. 1. In the New Testament Iam 5.11 Heb. 11 wee find S. Iames commemorating the patience of Iob. S. Paul the faith of the Fathers Acts 9. ●9 And the devout Saints intimating to S. Peter the Charity of Doreas by shewing unto him the coates and garments which she made while she was with them The Fathers also were frequent in this duty S. Bernard extolls Malachy and his brother Gerard S. Hierome prayses Nepotian Marcella Blesilla Paulina with other vertuous women S. Ambrose commends the Emperors Valentinian and Theodosius And Nazianzen hath extant in his works whole Orations celebrating the vertues of his brother Caesarius his sister Gorgonia his father Gregory his friend Achanasi us and others So that as Polanus hath well observed howsoever the infirmities of the faithfull ought to bee buryed with their bodyes yet the Memoriall of their vertues so it be modestly and moderatly done is a part of that civill honour which we owe to those that are departed this life and at rest with God And S. Austin tells us fiden●iore laude praedicamus jam in vita feliciore victores quam in ista adhuc pugnantes we doe and may with much better confidence commend those that are Conquerors in that farre more happy life then wee can doe those that are yet but combatants in this vale of misery for saith hee the dead are not sensible of either flattery or detraction and therefore wee need not feare to yeeld them their due praises nec laudantem sdulatio movet nec laudatum tentat Elatio Neither the party praising doth sooth with flattery nor the party praised can swell with vanity Since then the thing is not New in it selfe I hope it wil not be repute I strange in me if straining courtesie with my usual Method I powrea box of Spicknard on the head of this