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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

him his own fault and hear him presently say As the Lord liveth the man that hath done this thing shall surely dye This discovers to me my own iniquity who am many times ready with David to condemn my own actions in an other person and to be a severe censurer of the faults of others but to pass a very slight one upon my own and can easily discern the mote in my brothers eye but cannot perceive the beam that is in my own eye O Lord I beseech thee when I would censure make me to begin at home and to judge my self remembring that I have most reason to do so for I can see in my brother but a a life full of sin but I can see in my self an heart full of sin let me therefore in lowliness of mind esteem others better than my self and not judge another but judge my self that I may not be judged of the Lord. REFLECT VII Jos 23.15 But as for me and my house we will serve the Lord. LOrd when I read of thy servant Joshuah before his death reckoning up all the great engagements that the Children of Israel had to serve thee to provoke them to renew their Covenant with thee and to keep close to thy service and hear him taking his most happy resolution that whatever they did He and his house would serve the Lord. How desirous O Lord am I to follow this holy man's Example and to resolve that whatever the rest of the World doth I and my Family will serve the Lord let me not think it enough to serve thee my own self but make me to do as thou saidst thou knewst thy servant Abraham would to command my Children and my Houshold after me that they may keep thy Commandments to do Judgement and Justice And as holy David did let me say He that walketh uprightly he shall serve me mine eye shall be upon the faithful of the land that they may dwell with me He that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight that it may be said of me as it was of Cornelius That I fear God and all my house REFLECT VIII Luke 16.25 And Abraham said Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things and likewise Lazarus evil things but now he is comforted and thou art tormented LOrd when I read this sad answer of Abraham to the Rich-mans request Son remember that thou in thy life time receivedst thy good things How sad a remembrance do I believe this must needs be to him to consider his former prosperity and to think that he was cleathed in Purple and sine Linnen and sared sumptuously every day and now wanted a drop of water to cool his tongue The remembrance of his former prosperity was now but an aggravation of his misery For what good did it do him to consider that in his life time he had it may be a great Retinue and many to wait upon him when in Hell his Attendance were only Divels and damned Spirits O Lord I beseech thee therefore let it never be said to me as it was to this miserable great one thou hast in thy life time had thy good things thou hast had thy consolation O Lord I beseech thee give me not my Portion in this Life nor let me have a short Heaven here upon Earth and an eternal Hell hereafter Let me not be satisfied with the blessings of thy Foot-stool without those of thy Throne nor with the fatness of the Earth without the dew of Heaven Let me not say to gold thou art my hope or to the fine gold thou art my confidence Let me not count these lower things my good things because these may stand with Reprobation and a Dives may have them and go to Hell But let me account those things my good things which cannot stand with Reprobation O visit me with the favour of thy chosen O let me not so much covet to be cloathed with purple and fine linnen as to be like the kings daughter all glorious within and be cloathed with the Righteousness of Christ and help me to put on the Lord Jesus Christ and to make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof REFLECT IX Mark 8.36 VVhat shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his own soul LOrd when I read these words and see as it were my blessed Saviour putting the whole world into one Scale of a Ballance and the Soul of a poor Creature into the other and the Soul out-weighing all the World How really doth this convince me that whosoever shall exchange his immortal Soul to gain the whole World would make a sad bargain O Lord I beseech thee therefore let me not sell the Devil mine for a little scrap of it but remembering the preciousness of it by the price it cost For we were not redeemed with corruptible things as silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ Therefore if the Devil should come to me as he did once to my Saviour and shew me all the Kingdoms of the World and all the glories of them and say all these will I give thee for thy soul I may say to him Get thee behind me Satan I 'll never make such a fools bargain REFLECT X. 1 Sam. 30.6 And David encouraged himself in the Lord his God LOrd when I read this Chapter and consider the sad condition of David who when he returned found Ziglag burnt and his two Wives carried Captives by the Amalekites and the people that were with him talking of stoning him that he was in so sad an out-side condition that he was sorely distressed yet the Text saith that David even then encouraged himself in the Lord his God O Lord how doth this make me cry out and say blessed are the people which are in such a case yea blessed are the people whose God is the Lord yea blessed are they who in their greatest tryals and distresses can encourage themselves in God that can trust in God at all times Lord those that know thy name will put their trust in thee and thou wilt keep them in perfect peace whose mind is staid on thee because they trust in thee O Lord I beseech thee let this make me follow holy David's Example in all my distresses to encourage my self in thee knowing it is better to put confidence in God than to put confidence in Princes REFLECT XI Gen. 22.9 Abraham bound Isaac his son and laid him on the altar on the wood V. 12. Lay not thy hand upon the lad neither do thou any thing unto him LOrd when I read with what ready obedience faithful Abraham complyed with that command which not only ran cross to his natural affection but eemingly would disappoint the Promise he so long waited for and at length received with so much joy and satisfaction that he named his Son Isaac Laughter as a Witness and Memorial of it And also how when he had stretched out his hand

beginning of the last winter about to leave her her last farewel she took was in these words Now I have done my drudgery meaning her business I will set to the renewing of my preparations for Eternity and she made it the repeated business of the last winter In the beginning of the last March she set to the making of her Will anew and signed and sealed it on the twelfth day of the same Month and on the Tuesday in Passion Week March 26. was taken with some indisposition loss of Appetite and aguish distemper and had four or five Fits which yet in that season were judged both by Physicians and her Friends more advantageous to her health than dangerous to her life And in this state she continued freed from her fits in her own apprehension and in our hopes till Friday the twelfth of April on which day she rose with good strength and after sitting up some time being laid upon her Bed discoursing cheerfully and piously one of the last sentences she spake was this turning back the Curtain with her hand Well Ladies if I were one hour in Heaven I would not be again with you as well as I love you Having then received a kind visit from a Neighbouring Lady at her departure she rose from her Bed to her Chair in which being set she said she would go into her Bed but first would desire one of the Ministers then in the house to go to prayer with her and asking the company which they would have presently resolv'd her self to have him who was going away because the other would stay and pray with her dayly and immediately he being called and come her Ladyship sitting in her Chair by reason of her weakness for otherwise she always kneeled holding an Orange in her hand to which she smelt almost in the beginning of the Prayer she was heard to fetch a sigh or groan which was esteemed devotional as she used to do at other times But a Lady looking up who kneeled by her saw her look pale and her hand hang down at which she started up affrighted and all applyed themselves to help and the most afflictively distressed of them all if I may so speak when all our sorrows were superlative catch'd her right hand which then had lost it's pulse and never recovered it again Thus lived thus died this Right Honourable Lady this Heroick Woman this Blessed Saint this incomparable pattern of flaming zeal for the glory of God and burning charity for the good of men in the actual exercise of prayer by which she so often anticipated Heaven by pregustation and which now wafted her longing soul into the Holy of Holies within the vail at the kiss of God's mouth as Moses did though not full of years yet full of mature fruits and Graces when all men judged her worthy of a longer but God the only unerring Judge found her full ripened for a better life And in a sweeter Euthanasia than Augustus could wish himself might claim a more triumphant Plaudite than he Yea might have sung her Nunc demittis with good old Simeon nay with the holy Apostle that joyful Epinichion I have fought a good Fight I have finished my course I have kept the faith henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord the righteous Judge shall give me at that day and not to me only but unto them also that love his appearing You have heard though too too dryly how she serv'd and honoured God I should now shew to encourage you to do the like how he honoured her according to his word by Samuel Him that honours me I will honour And that of our Saviour He that serveth me him will my Father honour But I have much prevented my self by what is interwoven through all the preceding discourse The greatest honour God can put upon his creatures is to vouchsafe to use them and to make them Vessels of Honour fitted for their Master's service And this he conferred upon her in eminent and redoubled measures He imprinted on her the fairest impress of his most amiable Image and rendred her habile and ready to every good word and work He gave her riches and honour in abundance as is said of Jehosophat 2 Chron. 17.5 6. and yet her heart was not puffed up by them but lifted up under them in the ways of the Lord as it there follows He gave her the Heaven upon earth after some shivering scruples and trembling fears the blessed calm of a purified pacified serene and well-assured conscience He gave her the fragrant perfume of an odoriferous name and more than unspotted a bright and resplendent reputation He gave her many endeared Cordial Friends faithful to her as her own Soul to assist counsel comfort help her and carry her through her greatest difficulties and entangling affairs concerning one of whom she us'd often with much thankfulness to say He was a Friend of God Almighty's giving even beyond her own expectation He gave her many merciful deliverances one very like to that Gregory Nazianzen insists so largely on in his Funeral Oration for his Sister Gorgonia the Mules in whose Chariot running away not only bruised but brake her Bones and yet God miraculously restor'd her So when the Horses in our Lady's Coach excussed the Coach-man ran furiously away God almost miraculously hung the Coach against a Post in the way stopped their fury rescued her life from most eminent hazard and healed the bruises she received with safety This happened July 23. 1661. He gave her the affectionate esteem of all her Neighbours to such a degree that she was like Titus Deliciae humani generis the delight and darling of her Country and with so loving a willingness did they delight to serve her that you might see fifty fresh brave and gallant Teams day after day bringing in her provisions without other invitation than the bare knowledge of the time which themselves would enquire out and nothing would grieve them more than to be prevented in paying this Tribute of Honorary Respect He gave her such an esteem for her prudent integrity and discreet and impartial Righteousness that she began to be an employ and honour not usual to her Sex the Arbitress and Umpress of all the controversies amongst adjacent Neighbours many of which she reconciled happily and all which she decided wisely and justly He gave her the universal approbation love admiration of all that knew her that the Proverb was confuted which saith Who hath no Enemies hath no Friends For either she had none or her ways so pleased the Lord he made her Enemies to be at peace with her For honourable and mean rich and poor of all degrees and which is more of all perswasions paid her most kind respect honoured and lov'd her Finally he prevented her with the blessing of goodness and crown'd her with loving kindness and tender mercy He made her glad with the light of his countenance