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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65259	Mary's choice declared in a sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable Lady Mary Wharton, late wife of the Honourable Sir Thomas Wharton, Knight of the Bath, at Edlington in the county of York together with a narrative of the religious and holy life, and death of that excellent lady / by P.W., Rector of Edlington.	P. W. (Peter Watkinson), d. 1688.	1674 (1674)	Wing W1079; ESTC R38495	55,178	52

in the sight of God Her Heaven-born Faith trampled under-foot all conceit or consideration of secular advantage It was no great matter to her to issue from illustrious Progenitors her greatest ambition was to become the Child of God by spiritual birth She esteemed it but a small thing to glitter with the Ensigns of a Noble Family whose great care was to be enrolled among the Saints and Family of God She forgot her self to be Rich or Honourable regarding it only so far that the holiness of her mind might exceed the splendour of her outward man For she esteemed that to be the greatest which is the truest Nobility viz. to be the Child of God and co-heir with Christ Being thus perswaded her constant endeavour was to preserve the honour of her Nobility by keeping it unstained from those Vices which are not only a blemish to it but leave the offenders how Nobly so ever extracted under the ignominy of degeneracy and in the rank of the vilest of men who sell themselves to work wickedness in the sight of the Lord whereby they become willing slaves to the Prince of darkness who worketh effectually in and by them leading them Captive at his Will Whilst they serve their own Lusts and suffer sin to reign in their mortal bodies obeying it in the lusts thereof they even proclaim themselves to be the servants of sin being by it vanquished and brought in bondage She well knew that no man hath any cause to boast of his Nobility when his better part is enslaved it being much more shameful to enslave the mind than the body Her care therefore was to transfer all outward advantages to the inward adorning of the Soul slighting all secular Pomp and splendour that she might with more freedom choose that good part which could not be taken away from her Having so early received into her tender heart the Heavenly dew of Divine Grace natural corruption that common disease of all mankind was thereby even nipt in the bud and received its Deaths-wound before it could get that advantage which it ordinarily obtaineth in miserable mortals How soon did she begin to perform her Baptismal Vow and Covenant renouncing the Devil and all his works the pomps and vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful lusts of the Flesh Those vanities which were the carnal delights and darlings of her equals were her burden and grievance When to please Relations and that she might not seem too scrupulously morose she was some-waies necessitated to be present at the interludes which were at certain times acted in the Family yet as I have heard her sometimes say her heart was otherwise employ'd and she would ever be sure to take the first opportunity to withdraw and retire her self from those vanities to exercise her thoughts in better meditations according to her yet slender capacity Being grown up to years of discretion when her towardliness was more conspicuous in her Religious and Gracious comportment how dear and precious was she to all such of her acquaintance as had devoted themselves to the fear of God She was ever beloved and honoured by them and they of all others were most dear to her Whilst she kept in her Fathers-House and afterwards till the day of her Marriage besides her secret retirements she was a diligent Attendant upon publick Ordinances not omitting to watch at Wisdoms gates and wait at the Posts of her House continually Insomuch as living under the Ministry of that Eminent and faithful Servant of Christ Doctor Holdesworth she would not miss either Lords-Daies nor Holy-Daies Sermons nor Mornings Prayers on Wednesdaies and Frydaies nor such times in the Week as he appointed for Catechise though she was constrained hereby to leave her mornings rest very early and for haste cover with her Scarfe the defects of those Dresses which detained others of her Rank from that which she more prized than all worldly gayeties But these were her more obscure times before she was so fully known to those who are yet living witnesses of her pious regard to heavenly practices From whose credible reports and my own knowledge in the O too short time of our acquaintance which was not full two years take these ensuing few Observations It was the thirtieth year of her Age before she gave way to any motion of Marriage though she had many from very considerable persons but at that time it pleased God who ordereth all the concernments of his dear Children for their assured good to present her with such a motion as could not but be acceptable to her viz. Sir Thomas Wharton Knight of the Bath and only Brother to the Kight Honourable Phillip Lord Wharton of Wharton who being well acquainted with that Family to which his was nearly allied took so much notice of her Vertues and gracious conversation the great attractive of his affections to her that gave him occasion to move her in order to Marriage Which motion most happy to them both she upon serious consideration did embrace yet with this provision such due regard she had to filial duty that her Fathers and her Uncle Sir Thomas Pelham's consent whom she ever honoured as a Father and he ever tenderly loved her as a Child should first be obtained Sir Thomas was at hand and therefore the first address was made to him who readily and chearfully gave his approbation Her Father was then at Oxford with the King and his whole Estate under sequestration nor had she any further expectation from him of any augmentation of that Portion which was long before in her own hands and dispose yet would she not Marry till his assured consent was gained to her full satisfaction which himself did signifie to her by divers Letters which I have seen written from Oxford wherein he declared that he was assured that Sir Thomas would prove both honest and kind and farther assured her that his blessing should accompany them in their Marriage c. And now was the time when that light of Divine Grace long since kindled must become more conspicuous shining more and more unto that perfect day Prov. 4.18 Now that precious seed which had taken such firm root in her heart and had already made a hopeful progress in the blade shall produce the Ear and after that the full Corn in the Ear and yield the great Husband-man an acceptable Harvest Mark 4.28 To mention the particular passages of her well spent Life would rather be to write an History than what is only intended a short Narrative I can therefore here give only a general account of some few passages which yet may sufficiently evidence the sincerity of her Faith working by Love which is the whole of Christianity What is intended may be referred to these two Heads 1. Her Qualification 2. Her Conversation 1. For the former of these She was a careful observer of the Apostles earnest Exhortation adding to her Faith Vertue and to Vertue Knowledge 2 Pet.