A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Margaret Mainard, at Little Easton in Essex, on the 30th of June, 1682 by Tho. Ken ...
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- A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Margaret Mainard, at Little Easton in Essex, on the 30th of June, 1682 by Tho. Ken ...
- Author
- Ken, Thomas, 1637-1711.
- Publication
- London :: Printed by M. Flesher for Joanna Brome ..., and William Clarke ...,
- 1682.
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- Maynard of Estaines ad Turrim, Margaret Maynard, -- Baroness, d. 1682 -- Sermons.
- Funeral sermons.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"A sermon preached at the funeral of the Right Honourable the Lady Margaret Mainard, at Little Easton in Essex, on the 30th of June, 1682 by Tho. Ken ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a47237.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
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TO The Right Honourable WILLIAM Lord Mainard, BARON of EASTAINS, AND Comptroller of His MAJESTY'S Houshold.
My LORD,
THough I am unwilling, to decline any Service, which Your Lordship expects from me, yet when You enjoyn'd me, the Printing of this Sermon, I could not obey Your Command, without disputing it. For I consider'd, that in such an Age as this, where an Exemplary Holiness, is very rare, I shall be thought guilty, of most gross Flattery, in the Cha∣racter I have given, of Your Incomparable Lady, now in Heaven.
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But knowing I have so many, unexceptionable Witnesses, to attest every Line I have said, espe∣cially Your Self, who best understood her value, and are most sensible of her loss; and being Conscious to my self, that I have spoken no other throughout, than the words of Truth, I soon broke through, all the discouragements I had, either from the just Censures the World would fix, on the meaness of the Discourse, or from the unjust ones it might pass, on my Insincerity; and resolv'd, to doe all that little Honour I could, to her Memory, and to give God, the glory of her Example: And I humbly beseech the Divine Goodness, that what I now offer to the Publick, may not be wholly unprofitable, to those who reade it; However, I am sure, it will not be unacceptable to Your Lordship, or to those, who were so happy to know her, which will be satisfaction enough, to
My Good LORD,
Your Lordship's most Hum∣ble and Faithfull Servant THO. KEN.