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A57578	The happiness of a quiet mind both in youth and old age, with the way to attain it in a discourse occasioned by the death of Mrs. Martha Hasselborn who died March 13th, 1695/6, in the 95th year of her age / By Timothy Rogers ...	Rogers, Timothy, 1658-1728.	1696 (1696)	Wing R1851; ESTC R11977	40,028	114

Condition they recreated and pleased their Acquaintance with the sweet Odours of their Charity their Meekness and their good Works For when the Flower and the Green is Blasted by the cold of Death they are after all like the tender Plants Medicinal even when dryed and in their most unbeautiful State of great use and service to the World The Scripture perpetuates the Memory of several good Women as well as Men as Sarah and Rebeccah and Rachel and Miraim and Hannah and Deborah and the Blessed Virgin and that affectionate Person that scrupled no cost to shew her respect to our Saviour Mark 14.9 And Jesus loved Martha and her Sister and Lazarus John 11.5 He often met with a welcome at their Hospitable House And St. Paul greets Priscilla as well as Aquila and Mary and Julia and several others in Rom. 16. This Old Disciple of Christ of whom I am now to speak had spent her years in the Fear and the Love of God and full of Days full of pleasant quietness and hope she is gone to Rest She calmly Sleeps till the Morning of the Resurrection when she will have a Body without all the marks of withering and decayed Age a Body full of Lustre full of Activity and Like to the glorious body of our Lord Like the Angels that possess an eternal Youth their Beams never dimly shine their Light never weakly burns After a long Circulation of Hymns and Joys their Praises are as cheerful and their Voices as loud as ever This aged Servant of our Lord had made it her great business to trust in him and in the midst of Revolutions that were attended with threatning Prospects she remain'd unmoved When others were frighted with Alarums and the imagined approaches of Bloody Enemies she was undisturb'd saying I have a good God and I fear nothing and often used to say They are well kept that God keeps for she safely dwelt under the shadow of his Wings and as one that knew that the thoughts and discourse of worldly things were very unseasonable in a dying Hour she settled all her affairs before Death gave the last Summons and so was prepared to dye She possessed to almost an Hundred a a very good Age without pineing weakness and the sorrows that cloud others and send them early to the Grave She was now and then afflicted but she was never overwhelmed This good Woman spent her time in Prayer and Reading of the Holy Scripture that best of Books that great Conveyer of all Heavenly Light and Heat Where are the gracious Souls to whom this Revelation was not dear and precious What sort of People are those whose Ignorance and Rudeness forces them to Ridicule what others lay their whole stress for another World upon Dear to her as well as to all other Holy Souls was her Bible there she placed her trust thence she drew her Supports and Consolations This was her Lanthorn in this World during the darkness of her Pilgrimage she now needs it not where there is everlasting Day Next to the Blessed Scripture she often read in Dr. Preston Dr. Sibbs and in the Lives of Luther and Calvin and some of their Works in English On Precious and Reviving Names of Men that were Stars of the first Magnitude that shined in the Church And when they were placed in superiour Orbes lest their influence and heat behind they still edifie the Church by their Grave and Learned Writings in which every thing is manly and substantial and nothing slovingly or ridiculous or trifling and unbecoming the Majesty of Divinity and the Character they bore How much more happy were those useful Men in leaving such solid Writings behind them then are some of the Poets of our days who sauce a great part of their Composures with Wit and Folly or as I may say with foolish Wit whilst they content themselves in dressing up Vice with soft and easie Names and accommodate every thing to the gust and humour of a depraved Age and do not so much Combat with Sin as discover it study more to please then to profit their Books are Contagious whilst the Authors are alive and when they dye they do like Nero leave Poison behind them and propagate infection for a long time together Among all the rest of the Old Divines she had a particular respect to Dr. Preston which shewed that she had both a good Tast and Judgment in Divine things His solidity and wise management of truth gave Light to her Understanding and his serious and devout Applications warmed her Heart And of all the Works of this Pious Doctor she was most pleased and edified with his Discourse about God's All-sufficiency and so was another Old Disciple that I knew of above 90. that found always a peculiar refreshment in that very Treatise So wisely did these Aged People having sorrowfully viewed the Vanities of Life and of all Creatures betake themselves to God alone whose help they sought and whose help they found As she was careful to prepare her own Soul for another World she also thirsted for the welfare and happiness of others and often passed the moments that were most free from pain in pressing them to mind things of the greatest and most lasting Consequence desiring them to prepare to dye and earnestly moving them in order to this to live an Holy Life fully thinking with the great Apostle that Without holiness none can see the Lord. The sight of the pure Majesty of Heaven would be amazing and astonishing to a Soul full of evil inclinations to objects terrene and sensual Therefore this excellent Woman did often desire her Friends to take care least they were in their way of living like persons walking in a Gallery that went forwards and backwards without advancing any nearer to their Journeys end intimating that she wisht they might every day be nearer Heaven then they were before With a mighty pleasure when I was once with her she discoursed of the forementioned famous Divines and of the advantages she had by the Preaching and Sermons of many worthy Men such as Mr. Burroughs Mr. Lockyer old Mr. Calamy and several others whom she had long Survived Her Lot indeed was cast in happy times and she had the favour to live in the days of our Fore-fathers when Religion was more practised and esteemed then alas now it is The Puritans disputed less then we and lived better Oh that their Catholick Charity their peaceable Spirit and their innocent simplicity might have a Resurrection She lived to see most of her old Acquaintance removed by Death and so was after having been satisfied with living very willing to depart that she and her Friends might meet again She trusted God in her Health and so she died when her Pain and Sickness came upon her She often desired one that attended her in her near approaches to Eternity to read the first words of the 40th Psalm as extremely suitable to her own Case and Temper She was very

Mortification you will out-grow that anxiety of thought which others have as to what shall befal the World or themselves this Earth by most of its Inhabitants is over-rated and so they are loath to quit it Seventhly That you may patiently wait on God keep your Eye most constantly and steddily fixed on your blessed Master When the Storms arise look on him whose Power can in a moment make the Sea calm and the lowring Skie clear again In your trouble look to your Helper as when we ford a deep River we look to the further side Whereas if we only pore upon our Miseries we tire our Spirits and raise to our selves more hideous prospects of Calamity You need not go far to see your Saviour for he is with you in your Assemblies in your Closets he is in the Scriptures and in all the Promises no part of the World is out of his Dominion and he has all Power in Heaven and Earth The Prince of the Air that is limited to his own Principality and to his changeable Empire cannot raise a Storm without his leave tho' he is in himself very powerful yet he is Subject to a greater Power The Apostle directs the Christians of his days to wait for the Lord from Heaven 2 Thes 3.5 To wait for the sight of that glorious Person on whom they have believed with whom they hope to live for ever the sight of him is what they extreamly long for It will be an Heaven to see him who has done so much for them and of whom they have heard so very much When he comes he will reward his patient Servants he will manifest their Grace and make the World to wonder at his Power in their support Behold the Faith and Patience of the Saints Thus in the Text David says I have waited for the Lord. I have not waited so much for mine own Exaltation or the Conquest of mine Enemies as for the Favour and the Love of God I have not long'd to see mine House flourish and my Friends enriched or my Name perpetually celebrated on Earth No truly Lord I have longed for thee and thee alone This is all my Satisfaction this is all my Desire tho' no Deliverance come yet if thou O my God dost thy self come I shall have enough Another sort of Spirit have those who are only of this World they all would climb and are uneasie to attain some high or Lofty things Oh that I were Honourable says the Rich and O that I were Rich says the Poor Man Every one that has Money would fain have more and he that has a deal of Land would fain be Master of another Field he that is obscure would fain be noted and he that is publickly talked of would fain be more popular These are the things they long and wait for not satisfied with what God thinks fit to give them Even Princes sometimes think they have not room enough unless they invade the Dominions of others as well as lord it in their own And Ahab a wicked King could find no pleasure in his Crown unless he had the Vineyard of honest Nabaoth But be you satisfied with whatever is allotted you by Providence and do not grumble if you meet with Pain Reproach Poverty and various Crosses For all the Saints in Heaven went through great Tribulations thither most of the Illessed Saints performed their Voyage to that happy Land And now I come to speak of our Departed Friend Mrs. Hasselborn who dyed this Month in the 95th Year of her Age in a good old Age indeed Few very few of all the Sons and Daughters of Adam have in these times of the World so long a Life few of those that dye of Age hold out so long as she I shall make no manner of excuses nor tell you whilst I am praising her that I am not for praising those that are Departed nor confute my self as some do that say they are against commending the Dead even when they say of them all that ever they can Our Saviour said of this or that Person O Woman great is thy Faith and he that commends his Saints when they live would not have their Memory roughly treated when they are Dead No body will suspect the Humble Jesus as guilty of Flattery or of over-admiring any Persons and yet what a large Character does he think fit to give of his Predecessor Matth. XI 11. Verily I say unto you among them that are born of Women there has not risen a greater then John the Baptist And the plain-hearted free-spoken Paul that never never balked the boldest truth or the most searching reproof yet he was not so morose as to chide the People for commending Dorcas for her good Work and Alms-deed for the Coats and Garments which she made Acts 9.36 Nay so far was he from so four a temper that he highly extols Andronicus and Junias who were in Christ before him and who were of note among the Apostles It is a fault not to commend good People if it be done with truth and modesty especially in an ill-natured Age where those that God will own as his Jewels are trampled on and those that he will commend and accept are Censured and Reproacht though for their hard speeches that Men utter against the Innocent they must be rigorously Judged therefore for my part I reckon it my Duty to contribute what I can to embalm the Memory of such as were dear to Christ on Earth and now live with him above All the Graces of the blessed Spirit are too valuable to be neglected or obscured in the dark We are to invite others to behold the aimableness and beauty of Religion behold how it shines and triumphs and spreads its healing Beams Behold an Israelite indeed John 1.47 And it 's an Encouragement to others to be good when they find their works shall praise them in the gates of Zion it shall be said this or that man was born there we ought with great freeness and candor to acknowledge the Gifts and Graces that are bestowed on others Let us not bury the remembrance of their excellent Actions in the Grave Thus we may lawfully give them Praise while we do not give them Worship We think the Virgin Mother blessed among Women and to all Generations she is blessed We will honour her Memory but never think she is above her Son nor will we take the Crown from his Head to place it upon hers We will imitate the Examples of the Saints Departed but not pray to them for even Abraham himself is ignorant of us In preserving the Memory of good People we act suitably to the Design of God who has taken care to Record several of his Excellent Servants of whom we otherwise had never heard As they were zealous for his Glory whilst they were alive he will not let their Names be trampled on with the Feet of Pride when they are Departed Such Persons are like withered Flowers In their flourishing