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A67173	The mourners memorial in two sermons on the death of the truly pious Mris. Susanna Soame, late wife of Bartholomew Soame of Thurlow, Esq., who deceased Febru. 14, 1691/2 : with some account of her death / by Timothy Wright, Robert Fleming.	Wright, Timothy.; Fleming, Robert, 1660?-1716.	1695 (1695)	Wing W3712; ESTC R25216	54,544	137

Respect unto her Memory I shall only speak of what I have had the peculiar advantage of observing my self for the space of almost seven years that I have in two distinct periods lived in her Family And I must have been very inobservant indeed if in all that time I had not taken notice of what was so visible both in her habitual Temper and constant carriage exactly answering to every part of that descriptive Character of the true Christain which I have been this day unfolding to you of which I shall give you a distinct and impartial account in the following Particulars And 1. Her habitual heavenly-mindedness was such a shining Excellency in her as could not be hid under that Vaile of Humility and Modesty which was her constant ornament but did discover it self in an holy contempt of this lower World and all its perishing Enjoyments in a steady Aim directed unto higher and more noble Objects and in a continual aspiration after glory and honour and immortality The divine Grace had inspired her with that true magnanimity and nobleness of Spirit that her Desires and Hopes could by no means be confined within the narrow limits of Time nor be long together held down to sublunary and terrene objects And therefore her Soul would be often mounting upward upon the Wings of Faith into the bright Regions of light and glory above to contemplate the eternal and glorious Objects that are there And more especially toward the end of her Time having been observed for some months before her Death to have her thoughts much exercised about the State and Enjoyments of Heaven And particularly about separate Souls mutual knowledge of and converse with one another taking occasion very frequently to discourse upon that sublime Subject when in company with such as she apprehended might be assistant to her in her endeavours to attain more distinct and clear notions about it Of which she now understands more than any one here could tell her 2. The earnestness of her desires after heavenly glory and felicity was no less conspicuous than the steadiness of her Aims principally directed that way She did not only set this glory honour and immortality before her as the great Mark at which she aimed but was continually pressing forwards toward it seeking after these things with the most close and strenuous application of mind And that more espeically in fervent prayer wherein she was wont to breath out her very Soul to God every day For as her natural Temper inclined her to the love of Solitude so Grace had taught her to make the best improvement of her Solitary hours which she was careful to employ not only in diligent reading and devout meditation but especially in secret prayer whereby she maintained and kept up a continual commerce with Heaven which many a time brought her in very rich Returns in divine communications and manifestations Nor was she content to seek alone for such great things as Grace and Glory are and therefore would often with earnest importunity be-speak the joint-assistance of her more intimate Christian-friends and especially of such Ministers of her acquaintance as she could be most free with in managing this work that so her Addresses to God might be the more solemn by others assisting her therein and Dedicating several hours together unto that sacred service as hath been frequently done at her Request and principally upon her account in her own house 3. She was no less careful about the regular way of seeking for glory and honour and immortality than she was earnest and zealous in the work it self For she was better instructed in the great Doctrines and Duties of Christinity and in the Method of obtaining Salvation by Jesus Christ as it is revealed in the Gospel than to separate the Way from the End or foolishly to think of attaining the one without an heedful walking in the other And therefore it was her daily Study and sincere Endeavour in every thing to walk by rule not abusing the Grace of the Gospel as an encouragement to licentiousness but learning from it to deny all ungodliness and wordly lusts and to live Tit. 2. v. 11 12. 13. soberly righteously and godly in this present World so looking for that blessed hope c. Labouring to have her conversation such in all respects as might Phil. 1. v. 27. become the Gospel and her behaviour answerable to her hope And therefore it was her conscientious care and earnest endeavour to be seriously diligent and constant in performing all the Duties of a Christian both in her personal and relative capacities And whereas in the latter she sometimes found some difficulties under such concurrent circumstances as need not be mentioned which did unavoidably discover such of her Infirmities as otherwise might have been hid I have this to add from certain knowledge that they were by none more deeply resented or more sadly bewailed than by her self For when at any time upon some slender provocation the natural quickness of her Temper did on a suddain betray and hurry her into some more hasty passionate or indecent expressions they were soon followed with such an indignation against her self as did more than bear proportion thereunto and therefore might very justly as I doubt not but it did in a great measure make atonement for them unto such as were most nearly and sensibly touched by them All which I should have passed over in silence had I not considered that what I have mentioned on the one part might perhaps have been observed by many unto whom what is said on the other in her just vindication may be altogether unknown And what I have thus impartially hinted amounting to sufficient evidence that her Infirmities of this kind were no other than were very well consistent with sincerity and a good conscience both toward God and toward Man I must after all in justice to her Memory give her this general Character which all that knew her more intimately will say she justly deserved That she was a loving discreet and prudent Wife a careful affectionate and tender-hearted Mother a faithful compassionate and beneficent friend and in all these respects and many more a most exemplary Christian And then 4. To complete the Character her Patience and Perseverance were no less eminent than her care and diligence in well-doing She was not only unweariedly active and constant in doing but eminently submissive and patient in suffering the Will of her heavenly Father And therefore under all her painful and frequently renewed Exercises and Tryals which indeed were very grievous especially for the last twelve Months of her Life she did with unrepining submission and as much chearfulness as was consistent with her acute pains bow to the Soveraign disposing hand of God resigning her Will to his so as never to have been heard all the time to charge him foolishly in any the least murmuring complaint against him under what in his paternal wisdom he

THE MOVRNERS Memorial IN TWO SERMONS On the Death of the Truly Pious Mris. SUSANNA SOAME Late Wife of Bartholomew Soame of Thurlow Esq Who Deceased Febru 14. 1691 2. With some Account of Her LIFE DEATH By Timothy Wright Robert Fleming Ministers of the Gospel London Printed for John Salusbury at the Rising-Sun in Cornhil and John Harris at the Harrow in the Poultry MDCXCII To the much Honoured BARTHOLOMEW SOAME of Little Thurlow Esq Honoured Sir THat Relation which these Discourses have to One who a few days ago stood in the nearest upon earth to your self rendering them peculiarly Yours doth intitle them to your Patronage And considering that upon the same account they may be acceptable to many others unto whom her Memory is precious tho' as they are Ours we have little reason to expect they should be so to any We do with the greater readiness in Obedience to your Commands here humbly present them to your Hand in that plain Countrey-dress in which they were lately directed to your Ear among many others to whom they were in that respect the more suitable as well as to the solemnity of the Occasion Hopeing that as through the Divine Grace they found some Access unto your Heart when they first visited your Ear so they may be of some further use by the blessing of God to renew or rather fix and settle the impressions which were then made being now again presented to your Eye Sir As there is none more deeply sensible of the greatness of the loss which You and Yours have sustained by the Death of so near and dear and every way useful a Relative so there is none more sincerely desirous than We are to the utmost of our power to be assistant both to You and them in bearing your present Burdens as far as Christianity doth oblige and Capacitate us to be mutually helpful to one another in fulfilling that part of the Law of Christ And surely it cannot choose but be a very relieving thought to you to consider what a vast disproportion there is between your Temporal loss and her Eternal gain by her happy Exchange of a frail Tottering Earthly Tabernacle for an House not made with hands Eternal in the Heavens It may very well be a comfortable Alleviation to your Grief and Sorrow under the present afflictive dispensation when you first look backward and reflect upon the many wearisome and painful Exercises which One whom you so Dearly loved and then so heartily pityed did for so long a time undergo in a distempered body and then look forward and consider that She is now Eternally freed from all being happily arrived at that Everlasting Rest where there is not only perfect ease but fulness of joy to make it the more compleat complacential and delightful That Eternal weight of Glory which she is now in the possession of doth infinitely preponderate both her former sufferings in a mortal body and your present heavy affliction and sorrow upon her going out of it And therefore You have greater reason to rejoyce than to weep for her in as much as she is now gone unto her Heavenly Father And tho' it cannot be denyed but we have all reason to weep for our selves as indeed the state of this wretched World in general as well as of particular Families is sadly to be lamented when Persons of Eminent endowments and singular usefulness in their respective stations are in so great numbers as they have been of late translated out of it as being no longer worthy of such excellent Inhabitants and so few in many places springing up in their room Yet even in this respect we have no reason to sorrow as those that have no hope For As there are in your Family many pleasant and hopeful young Plants upon which the Blessing of Gen. 17. v. 7. Abraham is continually descending to make them yet more and more fruitful in every good work that it may still retain the beautiful Complexion of a Watered Garden and all that see Isa 58. v. 11. cap. 61. v. ● them may acknowledge that they are the Seed which the Lord hath blessed So with respect to the poor adjacent Countrey who also have sustained a great loss of which they are very sensible in the Decease of One who by your kind assistance and chearful Concurrence was more immediately instrumental in procuring for them such plain wholesome food for their Souls as they had a grateful relish of notwithstanding what in that kind they do otherwise enjoy We are greatly encouraged to hope that the Father of Spirits will in his wise and good Providence make up this loss also to them by continuing your Affairs here in such a posture that you may yet further pursue your own beneficent and charitable inclination towards your Neighbours and Country-men in affording them the like additional helps still for their spiritual improvement And in so doing We doubt not but You will find the Blessings of Heaven still multiplied upon your Family and abundance of peace and satisfaction in your own Spirit in persisting in and reflecting upon such a charitable piece of Service to the Souls of men In order whereunto both You and Yours of whose numerous favours to each of us we shall ever retain a most grateful sense are with no less sincerity than constancy recommended daily to the Compassionate Care of the Father of Mercys and the God of all Grace and Consolation by Honoured Sir Your greatly obliged faithful and humble Servants in Christ Timothy Wright Robert Fleming Thurlow-Hall March 7th 1691 2. A Funeral Sermon By Timothy Wright Chaplain in the Family Rom. 2. 7. To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Eternal Life Which words as connected with v. 6. are thus Who will render to every man according to his deeds To them who by patient continuance in well-doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Eternal Life IT having pleased Almighty God the Soveraign disposer of all things in whose hands all our times are to remove from us and take unto himself our deservedly Honoured Dear and useful Friend who as you all know was in her life-time not without the condescending and chearful Concurrence of Her surviving Head very instrumental for the propagating the True knowledge of Christ Jesus among you by the Preaching of the Gospel in this place It is now the commendable and pious desire and appointment of her nearest surviving Relatives that we should this day here pay our last solemn and publick Respects together unto her Memory in a Sermon or two dedicated unto it And my Station in the Family laying me under a peculiar Obligation to bear my part in this solemn service tho' otherwise unworthy of it it was not long after I began more closely to apply my thoughts to the making some slender preparation for it that this Text presented it self to my mind as a proper subject for our