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A66656	Eurēka, Eurēka the virtuous woman found, her loss bewailed, and character examined in a sermon preached at Felsted in Essex, April 30, 1678, at the funeral of ... Mary, countess dowager of Warwick, the most illustrious pattern of a sincere piety, and solid goodness his age hath produced : with so large additions as may be stiled the life of that noble lady : to which are annexed some of her ladyships pious and useful meditations / by Anthony Walker.	Walker, Anthony, d. 1692.; Warwick, Mary Boyle Rich, Countess of, 1625-1678. Occasional meditations upon sundry subjects.	1678 (1678)	Wing W301; ESTC R233189	74,039	235

good man wise virgins Matth. 25. and the wicked man the fool The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom the head the chief of wisdom a good understanding have all they that keep his commandments The praise of every one of them who do so endureth for ever Psal 111 ult I am loth notwithstanding the straits of time to dismiss this great truth without some short improvement let me therefore take advantage from the desire of fame and praise which nature hath planted in us all 1. To reprove the blindness and folly of Men who will not see or seeing not pursue the only true and safe and sure method of attaining it by labouring to be soundly and sincerely godly but build upon the sand that hollow sinking ground which will not bear this triumphal Arch this Royal Pillar their natural fortuitous acquired accomplishments their strength beauty riches honour fleshly wisdom all which are perishing and vain false and deceiving and will crown them at last but with fading flowers and withering garlands with the praise of foolish men like themselves never with that praise which comes from God for the Lord taketh no pleasure in the legs of a man Psal 147.10 nor in the face of a woman in the strength of the one nor in the beauty of the other but the Lord taketh pleasure in them that fear him and hope in his mercy I beseech you therefore and adjure you by all the obligations of duty to God and wisdom for your selves devote your selves to the fear of God entirely Resolve to be good in very good earnest to be Christians indeed and Christians within circumcised in heart and spirit Rom. 2.28 that your praise may be of God 1 Pet. 1.7 and not of men and found in the faith that it may be found to praise and honour and glory at the appearance of Jesus Christ And to encourage you lift up your eyes bestow one steddy wishful glance upon the goodly fruit with which this tree of life is loaden of which whoever eats shall never die but live for ever 1. All your sins shall be pardoned you shall have peace with God with conscience and with all the creatures acceptance of your persons and of all your services 2. You shall be freed from the power the filth and the deceitfulness of sin the vassalage of Satan the sting of death and from the pit and fear of Hell 3. Your Souls shall be repaired to their original perfections and excellencies in the Image of God and participation of the Divine Life 4. You shall be ingrafted into Christ adopted into the Family of God made temples of the Holy Ghost with all the Blessings which are consequent on these 5. You shall be heirs of all the promises yea inherit all things have all your wants supplied all just desires satisfied all conditions sanctified all providences blessed to promote your everlasting good Lastly you shall be crowned with the unwithering Laurels of true and of eternal praises by Men by Angels and by Christ and God and when you die in nature begin to live in glory go to God and see his face and be for ever with him in whose presence is fulness of joy and at whose right hand are pleasures for ever more And for further quickening and strengthning you against the difficulties which may seem to meet you and to obstruct you in this excellent way Let me set before you the examples of the Saints of God who though men of like passions with your selves inwardly clogged with the same corrupt and sinful nature outwardly beset with the like or same temptations cast off the weight which hung upon them broke through the difficulties which did encompass them and ran the race which was set before them and through faith and patience obtained and now inherit the promises and that sure reward that Diadem of Joy and Praise which God hath provided and Christ hath purchased for and promised to them that love and fear him and wait for his appearance Reflect on all the Worthies of the Old Testament and New the holy Patriarchs Prophets and Apostles the noble Army of Martyrs all the primitive Christians whose names are recorded in the Church's Story all the devout men and women of succeeding ages and follow that Cloud of Witnesses as Israel followed that Pillar of Cloud and Fire through the wilderness till they arriv'd at Canaan And that you may not doubt or fear that God's Arm is shortened or his hand grown weak his Bowels straitned or the aids of his Grace less powerful sufficient yea exuberant than they were of old Let me set before you an illustrious an Heroick a recent instance fresh in your memories known to you all a President as much beyond exception as example which may silence all your cavils of difficulty and much more of impossibility I mean the thrice honourable and truly noble the most excellent and incomparable Lady the sacred Shrine of whose venerable Herse we are now drenching with the just tribute of our floods of tears and strewing with the sweetest Flowers of Applause and Admiration though they as much too few as these too pale and faint for such an offering She was a Woman of the feebler Sex a sinful daughter of first sinning Eve a rich woman and how hardly can such be saved That had as much business to divert her and as much plenty to entertain her as much beauty to tempt her and as much favour to intangle her as any of you and lived in the same atheistical degenerate age with your selves wherein sincere and serious Religion is made the greatest Ridicule esteemed the most unmodish and unfashionable thing And yet in the midst of all these disadvantages I may without Hyperbole invite you as the Cryer us'd to call Spectators to the secular Plays Come see those Shews Quos nemo mortalium vidit vel visurus est Come see come hear such an example of Heroick Virtue of Generous Piety of sincere humble unaffected serious fruitful Religion as in all respects this age hath not produced as hath had rare if any Presidents to follow and will I fear be followed by few or none but with long distant intervals An hundred Mouths and a thousand Tongues Si mihi sin● centum linguae sint oraque centum though they all flowed with Nectar would be too few to praise her O for a Chrysostom's Mouth for an Angel's Tongue to describe this terrestrial Seraphim or a ray of light condens'd into a pencil and made tactile to give you this glorious child of light in vive Effigie But what great Masters can present in minature what skillful hand epitomize so great a soul and draw her in little on so few remaining Sands who had nothing little nothing mean but a little esteem of her own perfections and being mean in her own eyes For she was truly excellent and great in all respects great in the honour of her Birth being

and satisfied her as with marrow and fatness he granted the requests of her lips and shut not out her prayer He gave her ability and time to discharge her trust and settle her worldly affairs with honour and satisfaction and he gave her opportunity space and an heart to recollect her self and redeem what a hurry of business had deprived her of and renew her evidences for Heaven He took out the sting of death before she died Intelligeres illam non emori sed emigrare mutare amicos non relinquene Hierom. and the pains of death when she died and with a kiss of his mouth sucked up her Soul to Heaven to be immersed in that fulness of joy and bathed in those rivers of pleasure which are at his right hand for evermore May we live like her may we die like her that we may live with her and with our common Lord for ever And for your noble Lordship who are now investing your self with her large and noble Mantle May Elijah's spirit rest upon you as well as his Mantle that you may rise up an Elisha in her place and stead That Leez may be Leez still the seat of Nobleness and Honour the Hospital of Bounty and Charity the Sanctuary of Religion and the fear of God That so you may live and may live longer and as much desired and when you die as die you must for Leez though a Paradise hath no Tree of Life you may die later and as much lamented as your Noble Predecessors A Copy of that Excellent and Pious Letter written to the Right Honourable George Lord Berkeley by the Right Honourable Mary late Countess Dowager of Warwick of which Intimation is given in the 48 page of the foregoing Discourse My Lord IN obedience to your Commands I have undertaken that which I know I am very unfit to perform which is to give your Lordship Rules for holy living Yet because your Lordships Friendship makes you so kind as to believe what is said by me will make a deeper impression than by others who have not so great a share in your Lordships esteem I have ventured upon it not to inform you as one I believe ignorant for I know your Lordship to be very much better able to instruct me but to put your Lordship in mind That not the knower of the Law but the doer of it shall be justified and that If you know these things happy are you if you do them For he that knows his masters will and doth it not shall be beaten with many stripes I will begin my first Rule of Advice to your Lordship with desiring you not to turn the day into night and by sleeping so long in the morning give your self only time in haste to put on your clothes and it may be sometimes with more haste say a short formal prayer to stop the mouth of a natural Conscience which for haste you hardly mind your self and therefore have little reason to expect God should Therefore I shall advise your Lordship to go to bed in so good an hour at night as that you may wake in so good time as you may not lose the morning which certainly is the best time for the Service of God And I would have you as soon as you wake fix your thoughts upon that God that gives you time to think and do as Holy David did who said As soon as I awake I am with thee Consider how your Bed might have been your Grave for many every night go down into the place of silence and there take their long and last sleep Consider also what a mercy sleep is and if we miss but a nights rest how burdensome and uneasie a man would be to himself therefore begin the morning with blessing God for it and then commune with your heart upon your bed and be still and consider what a mercy it is to have another day added to your life that you may make your peace with God before you go hence and be no more seen Think what many a poor dying Creature would give for a day to repent in and at what a high rate if it were to be purchased the damned Spirits would purchase a day to repent in Consider a day is a precious thing when Titus a Heathen could say when he had spent a day without doing good to his friends with great regret O my friends I have lost a day And another could say He was not worthy the name of a man who spent a whole day in worldly pleasures Remember this little moment of time is all we have given us to provide for Eternity in and therefore not to be spent and thrown away carelesly as if we had no God to serve nor no Soul to save Therefore have a care lest it be said of you as it was of Jesabel I gave her space to repent but she repented not When your Lordship has thus in the morning brought your heart into a serious frame then my second Advice is to leave your Bed and as soon as you are ready retire to your Closet and let none of the business of the World be first dispatched though the Devil be never so busie to perswade you to it but say to all your worldly imployments Stay here while I go yonder and worship and I will come to you again When you have shut your door and have shut out outward Company then have a care to shut out inward vain and distracting thoughts which will be very busie to steal away your heart Then I would advise you to begin your private devotions with reading the Word of God the Holy Scriptures for David says Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his ways even by taking heed thereunto according to thy Word And certainly these Divine Oracles of God are a most excellent means towards the mending of our lives Therefore I would have you begin every morning with reading some portion of it remembring it is that Word by which we must one day he judged When you have done this I would not advise you presently to clap down upon your knees but first to consider seriously what you are going about viz. That you are going about to speak to that God before whom the Angels and the Cherubins do cover their faces in token of reverence as not being able or worthy to behold so much glory and that Abraham the Father of the Faithful presented himself before him with so much humility as that he called himself dust and ashes Therefore do you prostrate your self before him with humility remembring that he has said that he will have respect unto the lowly And yet come with confidence as to a gracious Father who has promised That whosoever comes unto him he will in no wise cast out and that before we call he will answer and whilst we are yet speaking he will hear Remember that Prayer is the key of Heaven it is that by which you can pour out all your wants

they more mis-interpreting her civility than she did the others sanctity 2. For her Defect of Anger which implies if it be faulty want of zeal against sin and sinners and so 't is an unjust charge for though I confess she could not rage and storm and discover her anger as some persons do who verifie the saying Ira furor brevis Anger is a kind of madness for her sedate composed serene mind and sweet and amicable disposition was scarce forcible to what was so contrary to her nature yet would she make deeper impressions of her displeasure for great faults than those who appeared most furious like a still soaking shower which will wet more than a driving storm And therefore 't was observ'd that if any servant had been faulty they had rather have passed the Gantlet thrice of their Lord 's most furious expressions than have once been sent for to their Lady's Closet whose treatment was soft words but hard arguments against their faults and like that silent lightning which without the noise of Thunder melts the Blade and sindgeth not the Scabbard neither the frightful hissing nor the venom'd sting but the penetrating oil of Scorpions This little is enough to extenuate her almost commendable faults and 't is a great evidence of her goodness that these things were imputed as Blemishes for they who would not spare her in these little errors shewed plainly that she was not chargeable with more or greater I am now arrived at the last Stage of this Mournful Journey to give an account of her surprising and never enough lamented death What presages she might have of its near approach she never discovered but her preparations for it had been long habitual it was one of the most constant subjects of her thinking and she used to call her walking to meditate of it her going to take a turn with death and it could never surprise or take her unprepared who was always preparing for it Yet there are some passages worthy of our remarks of the watchful kindness of Divine Providence over his own allarming them to trim their Lamps as the wise Virgins did against the coming of the Bridegroom and allowing them fit opportunities to do it as he signally did to her I shall on this consideration very seasonably add another Transcript out of her Ladyships Diary which contains an account of the last Sunday of her health being written but the very day before she was taken ill and in which God did it seems in a most remarkable manner impress the thoughts of her approaching dissolution on her Soul though there were no visible symptoms of it then upon her Body March 24. Sunday AS soon as I awaked I blessed God then I meditated and endeavoured by thinking of some of the great mercies of my life to stir up my heart to return Glory to God And those thoughts had this effect upon me to melt my heart much by God's love and to warm it with love to him Then I prayed and I was enabled in that duty to pour out my Soul to God and my heart was in it carried out to praise God and I was large in recounting of many of God's special mercies to me And whilst I was doing so I found God mighty upon my spirit and my heart in a much more than ordinary manner carried out to admire God for his goodness and to love him And I found his love make great impressions in my Breast And melting me into an unusual plenty of tears Those mercies which in an especial manner I was grateful for were the Creation and Redemption of the World and for the Gospel and the Sacraments and for free Grace and the Covenant of Grace and for the excellent means of it I had enjoyed and for the great patience God hath exercised towards me before and since my Conversion And for checks of Conscience when I had sinned and for repentance when I had done so And for a sanctified affliction and supports under it And for so large a portion of worldly Blessings After I had begged a Blessing upon the publick Ordinances I went to hear Mr. Woodroof his Text was Pass the time of your sojourning here in fear Then after a summary account of the Sermon follows In the Afternoon I heard again the same Person upon the same Text. And then follows a concise and methodical recapitulation of that Sermon also And after that I was in a serious and affected frame at both the Sermons and was by them convinced of the excellency of fearing God and of spending of the remainder of the term of my life in his service And did resolve to endeavour to spend the remaining part of my time better At both his Prayers I prayed with fervency afterwards I retired and meditated upon the Sermons and prayed them over And I had also this Evening large Meditations of Death and of Eternity which thoughts had this effect upon me to make me in an extraordinary awakened frame in which the things of another life were much realized to me and did make very deep impressions upon me And my Soul did follow hard after God for Grace to serve him better than ever yet I had done O Lord be pleased to hear my Prayers which did not come out of fained Lips and to hear the voice of my weeping for more holiness and for being more weaned from the world and all things in it After Supper I committed my self to God This was written the very last day of her health Monday Morning in which we see how God realized to her and gave her extraordinary impressions of Death Eternity and the Life to come when he was about to bring her to it for the very next day she began to be ill of that Sickness of which she died Our excellent Lady was far from their humour whose Consciences are so bad and unquiet company that they hate solitude and dare not be alone For she loved and even hugged her retirements as her greatest satisfactions And though when she was called to it she would deny her self and particular inclination as in the Universe Individuals do to obey the laws of universal Nature to comply with a duty of a larger spread as is related of the devout Marquess of Renti in the two years time he spent in repairing the seat of his Ancestors which diversion he cheerfully suffered as a willing mortification being a duty he owed to the Station in which God had placed him So she chearfully sustained the hurry of business which was inevitable to the acquitting her self of the trust reposed in her by her Lords last Will. But never did Bird take Wing when dis-intangled from a Net with greater cheerfulness nor chirp out the pleasures of its unconfined freedom more merrily than she did solace her self when she had escaped the noise and croud of affairs which ruffled and turmoyled her quiet and suspended the enjoyment of her self And when her dearest Sister was in the