County of Effex, Bart. died on the 22d Day of December, A. D. 1705, in the 29th Year of her Age; and, in Hopes of an happy Refurrection, lies buried under the Communion Table. She was a Woman, who (if ever any did) deferv'd to be buried within the facred Walls of this Chapel; as being, while she liv'd, the Glory and Ornament of the College, and the Example, as well as the Delight, of the learned Members thereof. For, I may appeal to you, Gentlemen of the Gown, how holy and truly Chriftian fhe was in her whole Behaviour; how remarkable, not only for her fincere Piety to God, and inceffant Study to deserve well of Mankind; but for the excellent Qualities of her Mind likewife, the Beauty of her Perfon, and the wonderful Sweetness of her Looks and Mien. The chief of her Care was to fquare her Life according to the Rule of divine Philofophy, being chafte, peaceable, just, and obfequious; abounding in Piety and good Works, and strict in her Conduct, but without the leaft Diffimulation. A Stranger fhe was to Pride, Anger, Envy, and Hatred; but in Humility, Meekness, Kindness, and Charity, very confpicuous: Equal to Profperity, and fuperior to Adverfity; in Pain and Sickness, patient; always conftant to herself; and, both living and dying, the fame, eafy, quiet, and ferene; always full of a celeftial Joy, and an ardent Defire for the bleffed Society of Heaven. A Wife she was (once the Joy, but now the Grief of her Husband) who, in Love, and every conjugal Office, was an illuftrious Pattern to her Sex; a tender, but prudent Mother to to her Children; a careful Mistress, a fincere Friend, and an agreeable Companion; kind to all, dear to all, and lamented by all, but above all by her forrowful Husband, who has erected this Monument of his everlasting Love for her. She had feven Children, William, Francis, William, Elizabeth, Jane, D'Arcey, and Thomas, whereof the four laft furviv'd her; but about five Months after her decease, Thomas, alas! was taken away in his Infancy. CON He disappointed the devices of the crafty, fo that Preach'd before the Lord-Mayor, April 11. 1697. Being the Anniversary of his Majesty's PROV. xiv. 34. the former Part of the Verfe. Self-Love the great Cause of bad Times. 2 TIM. iii. 1. part of verfe 2. This know also, that in the last days, perilous Preach'd at Bishop-Stortford Church, Auguft The Excellency and Usefulness of Wisdom, el- pecially to Perfous of Quality and Estate. Wisdom is good with an inheritance, and by it there is profit to them that fee the fun. For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom Preach'd before the University of Cambridge, The continual Plots and Attempts of the Ro manifts against the Establish'd Church and Government of England, ever fince the Re- Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth, may Ifrael now fay. Many a time have they afflicted me from my youth: yet they have not prevailed against me. The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows. |