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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

born a Lady and a Virtuosa both Seventh Daughter of that eminently Honourable Richard the First Earl of Cork who being born a private Gentleman and younger Brother of a younger Brother to no other Heritage than is expressed in the Device and Motto which his humble Gratitude inscribed on all the Palaces he built God's Providence mine Inheritance By that Providence and his diligent and wise Industry raised such an Honour and Estate and left such a Family as never any Subject of these three Kingdoms did and that with so unspotted a reputation of integrity that the most invidious scrutiny could find no blot though it winnowed all the methods of his Rising most severely which our good Lady hath often told me with great content and satisfaction This Noble Lord by his prudent and pious Consort no less an Ornament and Honour to their Descendants than himself was blessed with five Sons of which he lived to see four Lords and Peers of the Kingdom of Ireland And a Fifth more than these Titles speak a Sovereign and Peerless in a larger Province that of universal nature subdued and made obsequious to his inquisitive mind And eight Daughters And that you may remark how all things were extraordinary in this great Personage it will I hope be neither unpleasant nor impertinent to add a short Story I had from our Lady 's own mouth Master Boyl who was then a Widdower came one Morning to wait upon Sir Jeoffry Fenton at that time a great Officer of State in the Kingdom of Ireland who being engaged in business and not knowing who it was who desired to speak with him a while delayed him access which time he spent pleasantly with his young Daughter in her Nurses Arms. But when Sir Jeoffrey came and saw whom he had made attend somewhat long he civilly excused it But Master Boyl replyed he had been very well entertained and spent his time much to his satisfactiou in courting his Daughter if he might obtain the Honour to be accepted for his Son-in-law At which Sir Jeoffrey smiling to hear one who had been formerly married move for a Wife carried in Arms and under two years old asked him if he would stay for her to which he frankly answered him he would and Sir Jeoffrey as generously promised him he should then have his full consent And they both kept their words honourably And by this virtuous Lady he had thirteen Children ten of which he lived to see honourably married and died a Grandfather by the youngest of them Nor did she derive less honour from the collateral than the descending Line being Sister by Soul and Genius as well as Blood to these great Personages whose illustrious unspotted and resplendent Honour and Virtue and whose useful Learning and accurate Pens may attone and expiate as well as shame the scandalous Blemishes of a debauched and the many impertinencies of a scribling Age. 1. Richard the truly Right Honourable Loyal Wise and Virtuous Earl of Burlington and Cork whose life is his fairest and most laudable Character 2. The Right Honourable Roger Earl of Orery that great Poet great States-man great Soldier and great Every-thing which merits the name of Great or Good 3. Francis Lord Shannon whose Pocket-Pistol as he stiles his Book may make as wide Breaches in the Walls of the Capital as many Canons 4. And that Honourable and well known name R. Boyl Esquire that profound Philosopher accomplished Humanist and excellent Divine I had almost said Lay-Bishop as one hath stiled Sir H. Savil whose Works alone may make a Library The Female Branches also if it be lawful so to call them whose Virtues were so masculine Souls knowing no difference of Sex by their Honours and Graces by mutual reflections gave and received lustre to and from her The Eldest of which the Lady Alice was married to the Lord Baramore The Second the Lady Sarah to the Lord Digby of Ireland The Third the Lady Laetitia to the eldest Son of the Lord Goring who died Earl of Norwich The Fourth the Lady Joan to the Earl of Kildare not only Primier Earl of Ireland but the ancientest House in Christendom of that degree the present Earl being the six and twentieth or seven and twentieth of Lineal Descent And as I have heard it was that great Antiquary King Charles the First his observation that the three anientest Families in Europe for Nobility were the Veres in England Earls of Oxford and the Fitz-Geralds in Ireland Earls of Kildare and Momorancy in France 'T is observable that the present young Earl of Kildare is a mixture of the Blood of Fitz-Geralds and Veres The Fifth the Lady Katharine who was married to the Lord Vicount Ranelaugh and Mother to the present generous Earl of Ranelaugh of which Family I could have added an eminent Remark I meet with in Fuller's Worthies This Lady's Character is so signalized by her known Merit among all Persons of Honour that as I need not so I dare not attempt beyond this one word She was our Lady's Friend-Sister The Sixth the Lady Dorothy Loftus The Seventh the number of Perfection which shut up and crown'd this noble Train for the Eighth the Lady Margaret died unmarried was our excellent Lady Mary married to Charles Earl of Warwick of whom if I should use the Language of my Text I should neither despair their pardon nor fear the reproach of rudeness Many Daughters all his Daughters did virtuously but thou She was Great by her Marriage into the Noble Neighbouring Family which yet received accession to its Grandure by the lustre of her Name and Virtues But she needed neither borrowed Shades nor reflexive Lights to set her off being personally great in all natural Endowments and Accomplishments of Soul and Body Wisdom Beauty Favour Virtue Great by her Tongue for never Woman used one better speaking so gracefully promptly discreetly pertinently holily that I have oft admired the edifying words that proceeded from her Mouth Great by her Pen as you may Ex pede Herculem discover by that little taste of it the world hath been happy in the hasty fruit of one or two interrupted hours after Supper which she professed to me with a little regret when she was surprised with it's sliding into the world without her knowledge or allowance and wholly beside her expectation Great by being the greatest Mistress and Promotress not to say the Foundress and Inventress of a new Science The Art of obliging in which she attain'd that Sovereign Perfection that she reigned over all their hearts with whom she did converse Great in her nobleness of Living and in her free and splendid Hospitality Great in the unparallel'd sincerity of constant faithful condescending Friendship and for that law of kindness which dwelt in her Lips and Heart Great in her dexterity of Management Great in her quickness to apprehend the difficulties of her Affairs and where the stress and pinch lay to untie the Knot and loose and ease them Great

to God as to a most loving Father with a confidence that he will supply them The Scripture tells you That the effectual fervent prayer of a righteour man availeth much and it tells you that though Elias was a man subject to like passions with us yet God heard him and granted his requests to encourage us to come with boldness to the Throne of Grace Therefore do not only make conscience to pray but make conscience also how to pray Pray with zeal and fervency do not satisfie your self with the body of the duty without the Soul but as pious Hanna did pour out your spirit before the Lord in the name of Christ for things what you stand in need of And remember that David said that the Lord had heard the voice of his weeping And therefore if you can weep for your sins at least mourn that you cannot mourn for sinning against so gracious a Father that so the mercies of God may melt into an ingenuous sorrow And do not leave your prayers till you have enjoyed some Communion with God in them and then you will be fit to go chearfully about your worldly imployments Forget not God hath intrusted you with Children and therefore remember to take care they be bred up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord and to season them in their young and tender years with Principles of Piety and Honour that so setting them forth in the way wherein they should go when they are old they may not depart from it Remember also you have a Family to govern and take up good Josuah's resolution that you and your house will serve the Lord and David's who said that his eyes should be on the Faithful in the Land that they might serve him and he that telleth lyes should not tarry in his sight Therefore have a care not to keep any that is openly profane and scandalous but at least let them be morally civil and let God be solemnly twice a day publickly worshipped by your self and Family and set them good Examples and say unto them as Gideon did to his men in another case Look on me and do likewise When you have thus spent your morning then I am not so rigid as to forbid you all Recreations no I think them very necessary for Diversion but I must be so severe as to forbid you such as may put you into any passion or disorder which may be hurtful both to Soul and Body Therefore I would absolutely forbid you Dice and Cards too unless it be sometimes when you must keep these limitations First not to play all day long as if you were made only to eat and drink and rise up to play For certainly God did not give us time as we give Children Rattles only to play withal Remember what your good Friend Dr. Taylor says That he that spends his time in sports and calls it Recreation is as he whose garment is nothing but fringes and and his meat nothing but sauce Therefore I shall advise you that your Recreations may be as your sauce not as your full meat The second limitation I would advise is not to play for more than you care whether you win or lose Remember that Mr. Herbert in his excellent Poems says Game is a Civil Gunpowder in Peace Blowing up houses with their whole increase My next Advice to you is to make a good choice of your friends and to keep company most with those of them that are civil and religious and ingenious for such company will be both pleasant and advantagious to you but the ranting Gamesters company ought to be displeasing to you for I am sure you may get a great deal of ill by them but no good therefore let such Company be rather a punishment than a choice Next I would desire you to be as chearful as you can and to that purpose I would recommend to you that gaity of goodness that will make you most pleasing to your self and others And now my Lord as your Friend you must give me leave to give you not only good counsel but my own experiences too like Nurses who feed their Children with nothing but what they have first themselves digested into milk and to assure you that however the Devil and wicked men may perswade you That Religion will make you melancholy yet I can assert from my own experience that nothing can give you that comfort serenity and composedness of mind as a well and orderly led life This will free you from all those sad disquieting remorses and checks of conscience which follow an ill action and give you that peace of God that passes all understanding and that continual feast of a good conscience This will make you rejoyce with joy unspeakable and full of glory This will calm your desires and quiet your wishes so as you shall find the consolations of God are not small You will find you have made a happy exchange having Gold for Brass and Pearls for Pebles For truly my Lord I am upon tryal convinced that all the pleasures of this world are not satisfactory We expect a great deal more from them than we find For pleasures die in their Birth and therefore as Bishop Hall says are not worthy to come into the Bills of Mortality I must confess for my own part though I had as much as most people in this Kingdom to please me and saw it in all the Glories of the Court and was both young and vain enough to endeavour having my share in all the Vanities thereof yet I never found they satisfied me God having give me a Nature uncapable of satisfaction in any thing below the highest Excellency I never in all my life found real and satisfying Comforts but in the ways of God and I am very confident your Lordship never will neither Therefore I beseech you try this and then I verily believe you will be of my opinion That all her ways are pleasantness and all her paths are peace When you have spent what time you think fit in your Recreations or visiting Friends or receiving Visits from them then I would have you every day set some time apart for reading good Books and Meditation do not fear that a little time alone should make you melancholy for the way not to be alone is to be alone and you will find your self never less alone than when you are so For certainly that God that makes all others good company must needs be best himself Be often in the profitable work of self-examination be not a stranger at home but pray S. Austins Prayer Lord make me know thee and my self You will find the practice of this Rule conduce much to the good of your Soul This will make you see what sin is most predominant and what grace is most weak and therefore had need be strengthened It will keep sin from growing undiscerned by you Remember my Lord the best Gardens had need often to be weeded or else they will