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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A01547	Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59. preached at the enterrement of the remaines of Mris Joice Featly. Together with the testimonie then given unto her by Tho. Gataker, B. of D. and rector of Rotherhith.	Gataker, Thomas, 1574-1654.	1638 (1638)	STC 11674; ESTC S117263	27,935	37

I know would freely testifie and those of them that doe survive if they be not extremely unthankfull cannot but right willingly acknowledge And some of her first Husbands kindred beside others not a few she brought up as carefully as if they had beene her owne children In a word she was such an one as Solomon could hardly sind one of a thousand a compleat Woman a compleat wife defective in nothing that might be required in either But to rise a step higher Morall vertue indeed without grace is as Ierome after Irenaeus and Tertullian telleth us but a glassie Bugle but a counterfeit Pearle and all the acts thereof unlesse they be sanctified are but glittering slips as Augustine speaketh And yet let me tell you by the way that even these helpe much to adorne grace where it is and that for want of these to the no small disgrace of grace even such married persons as professe and pretend much grace yet live many times lesse quietly contentedly and comfortably together then many other meere naturall ones doe But these things in this our Sister were seasoned with grace She was a woman as of a vertuous so of a gracious disposition and this her gracious disposition was manifested in two things especially her Pietie and her Charitie To begin with the latter For her Charitie it began indeed at home both reason and religion require it should so doe at her kindred and allies I meane of whom not a few as I touched in part before were relieved and supported by her there seldome or never wanting some or other of them that were either educated with her or maintained neere to her But neither did her charitie stay and stint it selfe there with them that were with her as at the Well-head but the streames of it issued out dispersed themselves abroad to poore neighbours of all sorts on every side of her Divers pensioners she had that in a constant course received the fruits of her bountie but no other were excluded from tasting thereof and that liberally and largely when occasion so required For she was which I take to be two principall properties of Charitie as very pitiefull and prone to commiserate the wants and necessities of others so no lesse bountifull and forward to communicate thereunto as well by personall aides as by free and liberall supplyes And whereas she had pretie skill in matter of Physick and Chirurgerie as indeed what was she not skilfull in in this kind she was exceeding helpfull by Waters and Medicines as well as advice to such poore soules as were not able to entertaine Physician or to goe to the cost of procuring Physick being not onely as Physician but as Apothecarie also to them In regard of which her charitable both disposition and practise as I doubt not but that she both had the prayers of the poore that blessed God for her while she lived and hath now the reward of it from him and with him in Heaven so I assure my selfe that those poore soules in those parts doe find no small want of her now she is gone and will ●eele it dayly more and more For her Pietie it appeared in her Devotions publike and private Publike in her constant repaire to Gods House and the publike worship and solemne Service there celebrated when and while health strength permitted Private and howsoever there is a promise of a more ample blessing upon the publike meanes yet peoples private devotions wherein fewest eyes are upon them and which none are conscious unto but God and their owne soules are a surer seale and evidence of their inceritie such are persons indeed as in private they are as by her constant standing times of prayer foure severall times each weeke-day and six on the Lords day a course which as I am informed she had constantly for many yeeres continued so by her diligent reading in the first place of Gods Oracles having within some terme of yeeres next before her decease read the whole New Testament twelve times over and that not slightly and super●icially but so as to observe somewhat that might be usefull unto her either out of or upon every Chapter she read that which by a multitude of Notes left behind her in writing may evidently appeare as also by her frequent perusall in the next place of the pious workes of religious Writers that might further and forward her in the good wayes of God Among which she professed her selfe to be much affected with some because they seemed to her to write as she said not to shew their learning but out of their owne sense and feeling of that no doubt that she felt also together with them and which caused her therefore the rather so much to affect them Yea one good proofe of her pietie may be this That for her better advancement and improvement therein in her last choice among many Matches moved to her as one of her parts meanes could not want motions yea and some of them not lightly to have beene disregarded yet passing by all other she pitched upon one of whom in regard of his presence I will not say what I might onely this I will say one that she justly deemed might be a prime instrument of procuring and promoting her spirituall progresse in the work course of grace And that this was her maine end and aime in that her choice she manifested by a speech which I may not let passe uttered by her to him at the time of her enter-marriage with him at what time she stated him for his life in the house she lived in that which his pastorall charge there afforded him not and remembred againe by her in the time of her late sicknesse I settle thee here for the Earth that thou mayest settle me for Heaven And as this was her maine end therein so her desire and endevour was to make use of it accordingly for she was not one of Solomons fooles that have a price in their hands to get wisedome with but have no heart or minde wit or will to make that use of it To which purpose I remember that repairing sometime to visit them that which mine engagements to either of them required and had beene more frequent but that distance of place necessary employments crasinesse of body restrained it when he and my selfe were in her presence talking together of the occurrents of the time and some points of Schoole-learning somewhat out of her element and above her spheare she strooke in with us and requested us to discourse rather of somewhat that she might also receive some benefit by that might be usefull as well to her as to us But I forget my selfe The time spendeth and my strength and speech with it and I must therefore of necessitie omit many things that might else have well beene mentioned I draw toward an end together with her end And