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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A44075	Two consolatory letters written to the right honorable the Countess of Westmorland The first upon the occasion of the death of Sr Roger Townshend, Baronet: the second upon the death of Mrs Anne Cartwright, Her Honour's children by Sir Roger Townshend, Baronet, her former husband.	Hodges, Thomas, d. 1688.	1669 (1669)	Wing H2324B; ESTC R218018	16,407	30

honoured or rejoyce all the Members rejoyce with it If your Son so considerable a part of your self come to honour why do you not acknowledg it Why do you not rejoyce together with him I find Gen. 31.27 that Laban chides Jacob his Son-in-law for stealing and carrying away his Daughters as Captives saying he would have sent him away with mirth and with Songs and with Tabrel and with Harps when he was returning home to the Earthly Canaan Madam Let your Son go to the Heavenly Canaan Let his soul return home to his own Countrey and his Father's House send him not away with bitter cryes and tears but rather with mirth and songs with Tabrel and Harp What joy musick and dancing do we read of at the return of the Prodigal who had been spiritually dead namely in his sins and trespasses but was now alive because he had part in the first Resurrection We read of no such joy no such musick and dancing at the raising up of Lazarus out of the Grave Let this teach you that your joy for your Son 's having part in the first Resurrection and thereby having passed from death to life so that the second death on him can have no power should moderate your sorrow for his going thorough the valley of the shadow of death in such Company too as that you need fear none evil for God is with him Psal 23. If there was joy in Heaven among the holy Angels at his first conversion from being a Sinner to a Saint as sure there was let not there be immoderate sorrow upon Earth at his translation from amongst Sinners to Saints and Angels to rejoice together with them yea into his Master's Joy Could the Saints in Heaven sympathize with their Friends sorrows on Earth the Mother's Grief would eclipse the Son's Joy All tears would never be wiped from his Eyes so long as there were any in yours His Joy would not be full so long as your Sorrows overflow Blessed are the dead that dye in the Lord is a true and faithful saying in the most Golden Age and most Halcyon days in the World How blessed is he then that dyed in the Lord and in peace on his bed in an Iron Age in times of War and Blood In such times of publike Calamity there is a Wo denounced in Scripture to them that are with Child or give suck in those days but no where do we read of any wo to them whose Children God takes to himself from the evil to come in those days It may be you say in your heart Had he dyed in his own Countrey at home then you could have born it but this doth imbitter your grief That he dyed in his travel and in a strange Land Madam He had done so if he had returned hither and dyed at home if in his own Land in his own House and upon his own Bed he had been but a stranger and pilgrim as all his fathers were Had he returned to England where would he have had meet Companions of his Age and Piety Had he gone to Rome I believe he would scarce have found one like himself In Heaven he was matched as soon as ever he came thither and that of his Countrey-men There 's the good King Edward the sixth and the good Lord Harrington young men famous for Vertue and Piety in their generation Again Your Son had as short and safe a passage to Heaven from Geneva as he could have had from his own House at Raynham And though his Corps came not to the Sepulchers of his Fathers yet he lies interr'd and intomb'd with honour near the Noble and Pious Marquess of Vico and not far from the Holy and Renowned Calvin He dyed far absent from his dear Mother and many of his Noble Friends yet he dyed in the House of the Reverend Mr. Diodate In the presence of his very loving and only Brother was brought to his Grave with very great solemnity and honour and lieth intombed in Geneva a City for Religion and Liberty one of the most famous throughout the World Thus far I have endeavoured to comfort your Ladiship but to deal plainly with you If the days and years of your mourning should not be past I must as the Prophet Isaiah sometimes in another case did wax very bold and chide you It is very observable how God takes up Samuel though a Prophet a man of God for his excessive mourning for the casting off of Saul saying to him How long wilt thou mourn for Saul seeing I have rejected him And may not I in like manner say to you sorrowing for your Son advanced to an Eternal Kingdom surely you may believe God doth How long wilt thou mourn for thy Son seeing I have received him What should I say more I wish I have not said too much already namely that which may trouble you whilst it was mine endeavour to comfort you Pray Madam be comforted Pray Madam comfort your self Take the same course to comfort your self now he is gone home which I suppose you did when he was in his Travels abroad Read over his Letters Discourses Meditations or any thing of his by you In these as it is said of Abel he being dead yet speaketh And thus you may converse with him still and as long as you live And if your Ladiship please pray sometimes at your leisure look upon this Epistle it is though not a Letter from him yet a kind of Letter of or concerning him or if you will herein you have his Image and Superscription here you have his Picture to the life what manner of man he was when at Cambridg And Madam this Letter tells you or here you may read your Son is well your Son liveth he is happie and his memorie is blessed and I wish all the Friends of Sir Roger Townshend when they die may be as this young man is And for your Ladiship especially my Prayer is That the consolations of the Almighty may not seem small unto you and that the God and Father of all consolations would fill you with everlasting consolation and good hope through grace and fill you with all joy and peace in believing that since he may not come to you while you live you may go to him when you dye And now if any should blame me for commemorating the dead so as I have done in this Epistle saying the valley of the shadow of death is and ought to be in the Land of forgetfulness I appeal to the parallel practise of holy men of God recorded in the Sacred Scripture for my justification There I find David a man after Gods own heart making honourable mention of Saul and of Jonathan presently after their death 2 Sam. 1.17 And if some of the Learned judg aright upon v. 18. taking order to perpetuate their memory to succeeding generations There I meet with the commemoration of Moses Aaron and Samuel Psal 99.26 and of Noah and Job a good while after

* Now Lord Townshend Sir Horatio Townshend became Heir continuing the Pension or Exhibition after his decease Nor was he likely as the Proverb is To rob Peter to pay Paul as too many do unjustly taking from some whilst they pretend charitably to give to others of this I conceive he gave some proof once in a journey towards London when he was earnest to have sent his man back to make satisfaction for our riding over the Corn in a place where the High-way was foul Madam You have seen your Son's Image and Likeness what manner of man he was at Church and abroad Will you but behold him in his Chamber and in his Closet He had learnt betimes to cry Abba Father in secret and to pray frequently and fervently even without a Book Nor was he ashamed to pray upon good occasion with his own Family so I call the company he had about him at Cambridg and not to serve God only by a Proxie He seemed to me to affect and countenance that Servant most who he thought loved and served his Heavenly Master best He used at night to reflect upon what had passed him in the day-time and frequently took private Notes thereof before he slept Madam This was your Son before and whilst he was a Student in the Colledg This was his Idea or Picture at seventeen or eighteen years of age But some may say Had this fair face no spot Had this body no shadow accompanying it Or is it wanting in the Picture I answer Yes he had and this Piece had a dark side as well as a bright He was naturally too too passionate and for this cause upon occasion of some exorbitancy that way I remember that once at London before he came to the University I found him in his Closet very sad and pensive Hereupon with much ado and great importunity I prevailed with him to tell me what he was thinking of which did so trouble him It was this He was wishing or desiring that God would take him out of the world for he feared he should never be able to master his passions Again he was much troubled at Cambridg as many of the dear servants of God have been with horrid blasphemous thoughts And although these monstrous Conceptions were rather I conceive the Devil's Brats and to be laid at his door yet for these would he cry bitterly and be almost in Rachel's sad posture refusing to be comforted Lastly He was overscrupulous he had a tender Conscience and a sorupulous Conscience That was his glory This his trouble Yet scruples I have heard well compared to Nettles which although they are not good in themselves yet they are a sign of a good Soil where they grow And now Madam if the sight of your Son in a sorrowful and weeping posture should by sympathy put your Ladiship into the like if your eyes should affect your heart and again your heart fill your eyes give me leave to comfort you before I leave you who am he who hath made you sorrowful in this Epistle If this sorry Pourtraiture laid in Water-colours by me cause your grief yet let the Ointment and Perfume of your Son 's Good Name wrapt up in this Paper and his Goodness and Vertue here shadowed forth which deserved to have been laid in Oyl and to be had in everlasting remembrance rejoice your heart The truth is it would be your sin to sorrow for such a Son as one that hath no hope His Body sleeps in Jesus in the Earth and his Soul wakes with Jesus in the Heavens and when Jesus Christ shall come again him will God bring with him Wherefore Comfort your self with these words Could you bear his absence when he was at Paris and cannot now he is in Paradice Might he go to see Rome and may he not go to possess Heaven Would you consent or connive at his going to see another Babylon so the blessed Apostle John Rev. chap. 17 and 18. and the holy Father Augustine in his City viz. l. 16. c. 17. calls Rome and must not he travel to Heaven that Jerusalem which is above the Mother of us all I know there is a great Chasme of distance 'twixt him and you now he is in Heaven and you are upon Earth Yet let me tell you You do not know but that every day you may see him you may look daily to be called to go to him But when he was beyond Seas you could not daily expect his return to you Nor indeed are you at so great a distance now from him but that you may once a day yea oftentimes every day look out and see the place where your Son is You may see without a Prospective or Telescope as it were the Foundations of that glorious City and the Floor and Pavement of that Royal Palace which must contain him till you come to him We read Matt. 2.9 10. when the wise men saw the Starr standing over the place where the young Child was they rejoyced with exceeding great joy As often as you lift up your eyes to Heaven and see either Sun Moon or any of the Starrs you see them under the place where your Child where your Son is yea and where your Saviour is yea where he shines as the Sun in the Kingdom of his Father and therefore rejoyce and be exceeding glad You and your Son are still both as it were of one and the same House namely retainers to one and the same Lord I confess he is preferred before you his Mother he is first taken up to serve above Stairs in the Chamber of Presence to wait continually before God to behold the Lord and Master face to face alway Your Ladiship though a Servant and Handmaid to the same Lord yet must wait below Stairs fitting your self and expecting till you shall be called up Madam You deem it an honour to be called a Daughter of Abraham why then should you be unwilling to part with your Son your dearly beloved Son when God calls for him So was not Abraham Hereby shall it be known that you love God if you shall not no not in your heart withhold or recall your Son your dear Son as one too dear from him who hath given your Ladiship twenty Sons and Daughters yea God hath given you his own Son though an only Son the dearly beloved of his Soul out of his bosome Why should not he have yours His Son was the Heir of the World the Heir of all things and yet He gave him you freely and for your sake and for your Son's sake to become poor and to be made a Man of sorrows and acquainted with griefs Why should you withhold in your heart your Son though your Heir when He calls for him out of the World this valley of tears to a Kingdom to a Throne to wipe all tears from his eyes and to have his head crowned his heart filled with joy unspeakable and full of glory If one Member be