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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

mighty power of Divine Grace and sincere Repentance now consecrated to be a Prophetess * The Prophecy which his Mother taught him by a divine afflatus instructs and catechises him in things of greatest importance and nearest concernment which she performs with a strong Pathos and most winning insinuation and hath the honour to have her prudent holy counsels recorded in the Sacred Canon And this fills up the nine first Verses and from thence he reciprocates and in a lofty strain approveth and applauds his Mother This latter part presents us with the Icon and Character of an excellent and Heroick Woman which is laid down in two and twenty Verses according to the number and in the order of the Letters of the Hebrew Alphabet every Letter in due sequence beginning a several Verse Psalm 25.34.111.119 Lament and divers other to intimate there 's somewhat signal in it which is composed with so much art as we find many other eminent portions of the Holy Scriptures are Some Interpreters allegorize these words and make the Virtuous Woman the Figure of the true Church Others refer them to the Holy and ever Blessed Virgin-Mother Others suppose them to describe an holy and devout Soul that consecrates it self entirely to God in the practice of all divine and truly ennobling Virtues Others will have them to be by a Prosopopoeia the Idea of Spiritual Wisdom and Heroical Virtue in the Abstract But the most and I think the best Expositors esteem them the Icon Idea Character and Picture of a truly Wise Religious Godly Gracious Woman drawn by the Holy Ghosts own Pencil in the hand of the most exquisite Master and Artist Solomon He begins with an inquest after her Who can find a virtuous Woman implying she 's a rare creature and hardly found but to encourage your search he assures you she 's worth looking for her value being inestimable for her price is far above Pearls and Rubies and all Precious Stones And then descends to draw her Pourtraicture and Beauty with comely and due proportions with bright and orient colours and sets her in the most advantageous Light in eighteen Verses And finally crowns her with this Wreath of Laurels with this golden Coronet with this Diadem of costly Jewels which make my present Text. Many daughters have done virtuously but thou excellest them all Favour is deceitful and beauty is vain but the woman which feareth the Lord she shall be praised Give her of the fruit of her hands let her own works praise her in the gates The words are a Royal Garland set on the Temples of the Virtuous Woman by the hands of Solomon and God I may not give the scent of every single Flower the sense of every severa word Such solemn trifling would look like fulsome Pedantry and ill become the mournful gravity of this occasion The mixed and compound fragrancy resulting from the whole wreathed and bound up together is this That solid and true praise is only and superlatively due to the sincerely godly and gracious woman who may claim it by the fruits her virtue hath been pregnant with or Goodness in good earnest substantial Religion which hath fruitful hands deserves and shall obtain an honourable testimony both of God and Men. But as too minute a niceness is unmanly and obraids the Auditory so too general a procedure is confused and cloudy acts the Dictator and arbitrarily imposeth both on Text and Hearers rather than deduceth fairly and convinceth clearly I shall therefore use that method which is free from both extremes taking for granted what is obvious and rendring so by additional Light the rest which needs it I may call this Text the Porch to the Temple of Honour and it hath two Doors one to shut out the bold Intruders and false Pretenders the other to admit the true and rightful claimers Plainly it shews 1. Negatively who doth not deserve 2. Positively who doth deserve true praise 1. Negatively no Woman deserves true praise 1. For Favour 2. For Beauty 2. Positively every Woman deserves true praise 1. Who feareth the Lord. 2. Who is fruitful in good works First per remotionem negatively because the Gates of this Temple are thronged with Worshippers and Praise hath many Candidates and Votaries and many run for this prize but only one obtains it I shall briefly shew how Solomon thrusts back and shuts the Door against nonsuits the Plea of most Pretenders under two instances of Favour and Beauty and by parity of reason shocks the bold confidence of all others who can shew no better Charter for their claim as if he had said whatsoever is false and vain can produce nothing that is true and lasting but Favour is false deceitful a lye And Beauty is a vanishing a fading fleeting thing therefore all the praise you affect or can obtain by these is like the Seed from whence it springs false and deceiving perishing and vain and she who sows such wind may expect nothing but a crop of Whirlwind Hos 8.7 Vide Cora. a Lapide in locum a blasting and a cold return By Favour is meant a comely presence a graceful deportment a winning carriage decent gesture handsome motions a ready wit and good expression and a decorous conversation made up of all these and such like Ingredients which is most taking and renders Women desirable and acceptable and procures Favour in the Eyes and Hearts of Men. By Beauty he understands a goodly proportion of members a just Symmetry and due situation of parts with the fit mixture of the Rose and Lilly Pulchritudo est Gypsum sepulchro inductum i. phlegma sanguine commi●tum pulcbre per pellem pellucens S. Chrys the best Varnish of a clear well coloured skin and whatever else composes an harmonious Air. Or if you please Beauty whether natural or artificial whether the mixture of Blood and Flegm shining through a good skin as S. Chrysostom defines it or Ceruss and Vermilion daubed on to hide a bad one whether a Gift wherewith God hath blessed them or a Theft for which God will blast them whether the Benefit of the Author of Nature or the Artifice of him who delights to disguise and destroy his Workmanship Both these are vain and inconstant false and deceitful adventitious or external the best no effect of our choice as every thing must be which is praise-worthy The worst proceeding from a corrupt and sinful will therefore blame-worthy and reproachable not excusable Temporis morbi ludibrium G. Naz. Can. 1.6 much less commendable Not Ague-proof nor tenable against the first assaults of age or sickness nor dare be looked upon by Wind or Sun And not only empty vain and destitute of good but fallacious and deceiving and full of evils snares and bands and nets and great temptations Fastus inest pulchris siquiturque superbia formam First to the Women themselves who have them or who make them too often rendring them proud disdainful

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

cloathing is Silk and Purple which seems to intimate that it is not unlawful to wear Silk Scarlet and Purple and that the Silk-worm was not made only to spin for the proud Yet O Lord I do beseech thee let me never more yield to that pityful temptation of being drawn to esteem either others or my self upon the account of being set out with much bravery but let me value more others my Fellow Christians and prize more in my self the adorning of a sweet meek quiet contented spirit which is in thy sight of great value And if I be adorned with the Graces of thy Holy Spirit help me to consider they will make me beautiful to all eternity where as all my bodily adornments are pull'd of at night when I go to rest and must be all for ever parted with at the night of death by me O Lord therefore be pleased to make me often call to my remembrance the very great and sensible pleasure I have often experienced in cloathing naked Backs when thou hast let me have the honour of being thy Almoner and dispensedst thy charity through my hands to thy necessitous poor and let that make me rather to chuse to cloath naked Backs than to please idle eyes and rather to chuse to see many of my Fellow Creatures kept warm being covered with my Charity in plain but warm Apparel than to starve my Charity by putting upon my self one rich laced Gown which would if sold and distributed unto the Poor make many decent and convenient Gowns for several indigent persons MEDITAT XII Vpon desiring a friend to preserve safe for me some precious things which were kept for me till I needed them and then seasonably produced to help me HOw earnestly did I desire my Friend to lay up safe for me these things and how faithfully hath he preserved them and how seasonably hath he produced them for me at my need This may be useful to excite me to practice gratitude to my best and highest Friend to whom I have oft sent up the respirations of Soul that he would keep for me both those Truths I have learnt out of his Sacred Word and those experiences I have had of his Goodness and supports vouchfafed me under afflicting providences not daring to trust to my memory only these engaging mercies I have received lest his Word and benefits should slip out of my mind and I have petitioned him also that he would bring afresh into my mind those Truths when I most needed them O Lord I adore thee for bringing again afresh to my Memory those supporting promises to strengthen my weak Faith when I most needed them which thou did preserve for me till the times of my greatest exigencies and didst then comfort me by them And O Lord I do also thankfully acknowledge that when thou didst as a gracious Father chastise me by afflictions for my enormities and I was even ready to faint in taking that wholesome Soul Physick of thy prescribing that thou wert then pleased by my considering the benefits which had formerly accrued to my better part by sanctified afflictions to make me not only in some good measure patient under them but didst also make me to believe they would be for my spiritual good And thus thou madest my Memory a Cabinet to preserve my own experiences that they might be seasonably produc'd to keep me from doing as Issachar did crouch down under my burdens MEDITAT XIII Vpon my often waking in the night and presently falling asleep again HOw often have I awaked this Night and instantly fallen asleep again being so drowsie that I could not long keep my self from slumbring This may be useful to mind me of my Spiritual Condition having oft been in an awakened frame in which I have been put upon seeking after the great things of Eternal Concernment which have then been so realised unto me as to take deep impressions upon my heart and hath made my Soul to follow hard after God for Mercy and for power to serve him better but alas how soon have I by carnal security been drowsie and fallen asleep again and though in the Divine Records of Gods revealed Will unto us he hath bid us that we should not sleep as do others but that we should be watchful yet I have been apt to forget that Precept and to say to my self in a spiritual sense what was said of natural rest which is a shutting up of the Senses concerning Lazarus that if he slept he should do well though I slept it should be well with me But O Lord I do most humbly beseech thee do unto me as thou saidst thou wouldst do unto him come and awaken me out of my sleep O let me no longer be so unequal in my Devotions as to have my Goodness like a Morning Dew which soon passes away and so be sometimes awake and sometimes asleep But let me be kept watchful by the serious sense of my mortality and of the strict account I must give to thee of all that I have done in the flesh whether it be good or evil And when thou seest me falling again into my Spiritual Lethargy do thou say unto me as the Mariners in the storm did unto Jonah Arise thou sluggard and call upon thy God PIOUS REFLECTIONS UPON SEVERAL SCRIPTURES Pious Reflections On Several SCRIPTURES REFLECTION 1. LOrd when I read in thy Word of the man after thine own heart saying Rivers of waters run down mine eyes because men keep not thy commandments and yet consider that I am so far from imitating him that I can many times suffer sin to be upon my brother without so much as giving him reproof for it or advising him so much as to consider whom he offends by it Nay sometimes I am ready to make a mock of sin and to laugh at that which is a grief to thy Holy Spirit O Lord I beseech thee humble me under this consideration and make me for the time to come to imitate holy David in my charity towards my offending Brother And with thy servant Lot to have my soul vexed in hearing and seeing the filthy communication of the wicked O let me be so charitable as to weep over the Soul of my offending Brother and let me as much as in me lies help him out of the snare of sin and by my Prayers and holy Example help him towards Heaven REFLECT II. Jonah 4.9 Then said the Lord dost thou well to be angry for the gourd and he said I do well to be angry even unto death LOrd when I read of this peevish Prophet Jonah who because thou wast merciful unto the repenting Ninevites and didst not destroy them in forty days according to what he had proclaimed was so discontented that when thou expostulatedst with him and askedst him whether he did well to be angry he was so far from confessing his fault as that he seemed to dare to approve it even to thy very face by these words I do

and took the Knife to slay his Son thou calledst from Heaven to him Lay not thy hand upon the lad This greatly shames me to think how slow and backward I was to yield to thy gracious commands and calls to devote my self intirely to thee in a course of strict Religion and to present my Body as a living Sacrifice holy acceptable to thee for fear of slaying my Isaac loosing all my joy and delight as if I might never have been merry after my so doing But O Lord I must acknowledge I was afraid where no fear was For I find by blest experience Religion the being laid on thine Altar neither kills nor burns up our delights only confines and tames them For as I read in the Parable of the prodigal though he had had much mad jollity before he never knew what true joy was till he came to himself and returned to his Father for 't was then and not till then that he and his began to be truly merry REFLECT XII Mart. 7.21 Not every one that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doth the will of my Father which is in heaven O Lord when I read that 't is not calling upon thee Lord Lord but the obeying thee as such by doing of thy Will that will give entrance into thy Kingdom O Lord how desirous am I to live my Prayers And as I every day pray as thou hast taught me that thy Will may be done So Lord inable me to do thy Will even when 't is most cross to my own Let thy Will commanding be my will obeying O help me to resign my will wholly to thine make me chearfully to do and patiently to suff●r thy Will Lord let they holy Will be done by me and upon me FINIS Imprimatur Geo. Thorp Rmo in Christo P. D. Domino Gulielmo Archiep. Cant. A Sacris Domesticis May 31. 1678. A CATALOGUE OF Some Books Printed for and Sold by Nathanael Ranew at the Kings Arms in St. Paul's Church-yard Folio's THe Works of Josephus with great diligence Revised and Amended according to the excellent French Translation of Monsieur Arnauld d' Andilly Also the Embassy of Philo Judeus to the Emperor Caius Caligula never translated before with the References of the Scripture A new Map of the Holy Land and divers Copper Plates serving to illustrate the History The Principles of Christian Religion with a large Body of Divinity methodically and familiarly handled by way of Question and Answer for the use of Families Together with Immanuel or the Mystery of the Incarnation of the Son of God by the most Reverend James Vsher late Archbishop of Armagh To which is added in this seventh Edition twenty Sermons preached at Oxford before his Majesty and elsewhere Perused and published by his Lordships Chaplains with the Life of the Author containing many remarkable Passages and an Alphabetical Table never before extent Quarto's The Harmony of the Divine Attributes in the Contrivance and Accomplishment of Man's Redemption by the Lord Jesus Christ or Discourses wherein is shewed how the Wisdom Mercy Justice Holiness Power and Truth of God are Glorified in that great and blessed Work by William Bates D. D. in quarto Of Wisdom three Books written in French by Peter Charron Doctor of Law in Paris Tranflated by Sampson Lennard in quarto A Sermon preached at High-Wickham in the County of Bucks wherein the Ministers Duty is remembred their Dignity asserted Man's Reconciliation with God urged by Samuel Gardner Chaplain to his Majesty in quarto The Norfolk Feast A Sermon preached at St. Dunstans being the day of the Anniversary Feast for that County by VVilliam Smythes Minister in that County in quarto The Speech of Sr. Audley Mervyn Knight His Majesties prime Serjeant of Law and Speaker of the House of Commons in Ireland delivered to his Grace Duke of Ormond Lord Lieutenant of Ireland the 13th Febr. 1662. in the Presence Chamber in the Castle in Dublin Octavo's EYPHKA EYPHKA The Virtuous Woman found Her Loss Bewailed and Character Exemplified in a Sermon preached at Felsted in Essex April 30. 1678. At the Funeral of that most Excellent Lady the Right Honourable and Eminently Religious and Charitable Mary Countess Dowager of VVarwick the most Illustrious Pattern of Sincere Piety and solid Goodness this Age hath produced With so large Additions as may be stiled The Life of that Noble Lady By Anthony VValker D. D. and Rector of Fyfield in the same County To which are Annexed some of her Ladiships Pious and Useful Meditations A worthy Communicant or a Treatise shewing the due order of Receiving the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper By Jeremiah Dyke in Octavo The Way to Salvation or the Doctrine of Life Eternal laid down from several Texts of Scripture opened and applied fitted to the capacity of the meanest Chirstian and useful for all Families by John Hieron in Octavo Solitude improved by Divine Meditation or a Treatise proving the Duty Demonstrating the Necessity Excellency Usefulness Nature Kinds and Requisites of Divine Meditation First intended for a Person of Honour and now Published for general use by Nathanael Ranew sometime Minister of Felsted in Essex in octavo Moral Vertues Baptized Christian or the Necessity of Morality among Christians by William Shelton of Bursted Magna in Essex in Octavo The Burning of London in the Year 1666. Commemorated and Improved in a hundred and ten Meditations and Contemplations by Samuel Rolle Minister of the Gospel and sometime Fellow of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge in octavo Natural Theology or the Knowledge of God from the Works of Creation Accommodated and Improved to the Service of Christianity by Matthew Barker in octavo Christ and the Covenant the Work and way of Meditation God's Return to the Soul or Nation together with his preventing Mercy Delivered in Ten Sermons by VVilliam Bridge sometime Minister of Yarmouth The Sinfulness of Sin and the Fulness of Christ delivered in two Sermons by the same Author The Vanity of the World by Ezekiel Hopkins in octavo The Souls Ascension in the state of Separation by Isaac Loeffs in octavo An Explication of the Assemblies lesser Catechism by Samuel VVinney in octavo Iter Boreale with other select Poems being an exact Collection of all hitherto extant and some added never before Printed by Robert VVild D. 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