Á Funeral Sermon. And indeed I haveanother Text1111 behind to preach upon, and that too given me by God Almighty : The former was given by the dire9ion of his Spirit in his holy Scriptures ; This latter by the wife order and difpofition of his providence, here expofed and prefented before your eyes : the former a legible, this a vifible Text, of that I have hitherto difcourfed, and am coming nosy to (peak (omewhat of this alto. A Text affording much plenty andvariety of feafonable matter, both for the more vigorous quickning of your affeólíons for the prefent, and alto for the fu- ture example of your piety. Like a well kept Garden, here is choice of fweet flowers, but no weeds, no beggery fluff at all : howbeit I (hall be very (paring (in compari(on of the plentifulnefs of the (ubjeél) and not take upon me to ga- ther to;ether all the goodly flowers, which fometime grew in this pleafane Gar- den: but prefent you with a (mall handful only ; not intending to (atisfie the curiolty of craving expeélations, but to beget a good appetite inall, andto let you a longing after more. And indeed, how can it otherwifebe imagined, that fuch a whole life of exem- plary virtue and piety, (as this excellent Ladies was) can be ( without (cnfible lofs and injury) conrraéled within that (cane and little allowance of time,which is now remaining. He that covets to take up anumber of (tattered piecesof Gold in the hollow of his hand, will go nigh to loofe many ; fome will flip through his fingers, let him be never (o wary : howeverit be, I (hall run the adventure, and chufe rather to be felenely injurious to her exemplary piety, (which her living modefly I am flare would have pardoned) thenbe openly too impoli"ng upon your patience ; So that my work (you fee) at prefent, is not fo properly the part of an Oratour, as the office of a Notary or Remembrancer, not intending to difcourfe over the whole flory of her life at large, (a work for volumes and ages) but as it were in charaólers and (hors hand, to prefentyou fome fewmemorialsof her fignal and incomparablepiety. . This Inca excellent Lady, the Lady ElizabethCavell, (the foletnnization of whore Funerals, is the fad occafion of this days meeting) was (as to her natural pedigree and extradlion) defcended of the right worthyand renowned Family of the Morifint at Cafhiobury in Hertfordfhire: One of her progenitours, was that le'atned and prudent Knight Sr. RichardMorifin; a perfon, whole great judgment. and experience in the Civilaffairs, and mattersofState and Goverment,hadgained him feveral times the Honourable Employment of Anrbaffadour unto forreign Kingdoms andPrinces ; which alto he as faithfullydifcharged with as much honour and renown. Her immediate Father, was that moil accomplifhed and generous person, Sr. Charles títiforJjln, One whole fingular affability and hofpitality, made him ge- nerallybeloved of his neighbours:Co that he was commonly called the Darling of his Countrey,and wantednothingbut the opportunity of a longer life, to have equalled him in honour to any of his predeceflours. This worthy person joyning himfelf afterward in marriage to the moll virtuous and delicate Lady, the Lady C.B1ary Hicks, fecond Daughter to the Lord Vi(count Cambelen, was by her blefl with the premifes of a fair and goodly iffue : But (lo it pleafed God) all of them, this only excepted, provedbut tender Buds, pluckedoff and gathered by death, long before they came to ripen into maturity : So that now they had but one only child remaining, and that a Daughter : and yet couldthey not complain for want of children; for in her alone they had theworth and value, and (lam lure) the comfort and happinefs of many children. Am not 1more worth to thee than ten fono, laid E/l¿anah you know to his Wife Hannah, t Sam. a. 8. and if ever Pa- tents might have Paid fo of one Jingle child, They might of Her. And now ha- ving Her only remaining, you cannot but imagine Hertobe a very precious Jewel; accordingly their great care was to have her well fer, with all the advantages of Honour and Luftre that couldbe. This (after flee was grown up to an age and flature, fie and proper for Marriage, andonwards of her (eventeenth year) made them greatly folicitous and inquifitive after a proper match for her; and at lafl after
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