16 ACit ire's goodnight. great blots in ourhiflory. Plutarch'reports a ftrange wantonnefs in fame Mtlefian Women , who in a corrupt prodigality of their lives , would , without any reafon or ¡provocation, be their own Executioners, and made is a fa (Ilion to hang chemfelves againft Reafon , Councel, and Nature, uncut the c.*Lilefians ref eeemus decreed their naked bodies, with the fame halter they ended their lives in, to nude cameo- lye unburied on Dunghils, expofed to the (corn of men, and the fepulture of dern laqueo quo Beats. This unhandfome u(age of their bodies after death , converted that effeaz pro vitae wild humour of Pelf-killing, into a careful fel£- prefervation : truly, refpeCI to our e(ferentur. Mil, Gellius1, s ,to. re P ter death, is a great obligation to an holy converfation whrlfl -we putation at a live: the care of the living (no doubt) both to live and dye well, mull needs sect. Polir. 1.1. be fomewhat increafed, when they know that their departure (hall not be folded feet. 75. up in filence. Siquid ell in Oar dead Sifter (peaks firft in the Dignity of her extraótion,fairly prodaim'd nobilitate be- to you by the Herauldry of her Hearfe, but fairer far in the fuitable Charaóter jam, id effe of her life; the worthinefs of her birth had no other influence on her, but to arbitror Alum engage her to worthinefs of aétion,which (he fo nobly improved, that the vertue of ut impolttx nobilibusneeef: her life dignified the honour of lrcrdefcent fo the glory file received from her g K Y tadsvideatur,ne father on earth, by the aEts of humility and charity, the enhanfed to the glorifying a majerum vir- her father which is in heaven. tutedegeneren! Her Beauty, which was a depofirory from heaven, fhe.beautifiedwith fo much Borth, de cont. Piety, and adorned with fo much Religion, as if fhe had been intrulied co pre- L3 hil. 3. Pro, 6, ferve both the luftre and thevertues of the celeftialbodies in her Epitome. But the beautyof her foul was a fun to this taper, fromwhence her ftarry aillions received a mighty fplendour. Speech. When fhe fpake, wifdom diEtated and wit delivered ; (he hungher languageat your earas Jewels, much of worth in a fmall bulk ; and as Jewels her (perch was rich, both in lu(tre and in medicine ; the conceits ofher mirth would raife a (mile, but the gravity of her conveyance commanded reverence. Her Reproofs, likelightning, quick, but (horr,fuchas would melt the blade, yet not finge the fcabbard ; kill the fin, but preferve the fumer. Her Promife4 were made in her head, but kept in her hand ; as anail faftned in a fore place,driven byUnderftanding, and clenched by Affeétion. Her Atrite. Her Attireneither fordid nor curious, not tooearly in,nor too late out of fathion; not like chofe Mufhrom gentry, whodeclare their lace rife from peafanrry and po- vtr.y by the herauldry of the dire and rags on their back. Table: Her Table was both wholfomeand hand(otne enough co faeisfie the (tomach of the hungry, and well enough to fancy the palate of the curious :; yea when the (word had carved her meat to the fifth parr, her goodcheer was as muchas ever- Vifin; Her Vifits were like the Sun's, beneficialwhereere the came,andtreading inher Savioursfleps, She went up and down doing good. Nei`hbeut- Her Accefs was free but not lode, her door,as her heart, was open to all friends; hood. Io that without much Ihifting the Scene the would eafily make her Houlea Court, an Alms- hhufe, a School, and an Hofpital all in a day. Aaasf. n;. She had treatments for the greateft,who cameas Agrippa and Bernice with great pomp. ShehadRelief for the poore(t, who as Lazarsu, lay at the gate; InftruEti- ens for the ignorant, and Charitable remedies for the tick ; Chri(tian applications for all, feedingthe Hungry, cooling the Thirfty, clothing the Naked, vifrting the pat.',f,3S,3g. Sick, and harbouringtheTravailer; what God requires inaits of Neighbour-hood here, and rewards hereafterthe whole Voyzenagecan witnefs with me, and for her, that(he was a great parallel to Dorcas,AEls9. 36. This woman was Fall of goodworks and alms-deeds which the did. Phil. 4. s. Finally bretheren, whatfoever things are true, whatfoever things are honefi, what- forver things are jufP, whatfoever things arepure, whatfoever things are lovely, what. [sever things are ofgoodreport, fhe did them, therefore if there be any vertue or any praife, lee herhave it. Her Relation as a Wife, (hews her, without difparagemene, a rare example and flandard to her Sex. Society i
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