Hēsychia Christianou, or, A Christian's acquiescence in all the products of divine providence opened in a sermon, preached at Cottesbrook in Northampton-Shire, April the 16, 1644, at the interment of the Right Honourable, and eminently pious lady, the Lady Elizabeth Langham, wife to Sir James Langham Kt. / by Simon Ford ...
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- Hēsychia Christianou, or, A Christian's acquiescence in all the products of divine providence opened in a sermon, preached at Cottesbrook in Northampton-Shire, April the 16, 1644, at the interment of the Right Honourable, and eminently pious lady, the Lady Elizabeth Langham, wife to Sir James Langham Kt. / by Simon Ford ...
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- Ford, Simon, 1619?-1699.
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- 1665.
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- Langham, Elizabeth, -- Lady, d. 1664.
- Bible. -- N.T. -- Acts XXI, 14 -- Sermons.
- Providence and government of God -- Sermons.
- Sermons, English -- 17th century.
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"Hēsychia Christianou, or, A Christian's acquiescence in all the products of divine providence opened in a sermon, preached at Cottesbrook in Northampton-Shire, April the 16, 1644, at the interment of the Right Honourable, and eminently pious lady, the Lady Elizabeth Langham, wife to Sir James Langham Kt. / by Simon Ford ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A39911.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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Upon the DEATH Of the LADY ELIZABETH, Wife to Sr JAMES LANGHAM, Daughter to FERDINANDO, Earl, and LƲCY, Countess of HƲNTINGDON.
COuld Noble Birth command Impartiall Death,
Or court him to prolong this vitall Breath;
A feaver had not scorch't those veins, where met
The Blood of Hastings and Plantagenet.
If Beauty could have mov'd unto remorse,
Or charm'd, with pow'rfull spells, the conqu'rors force,
Those cheekes had sav'd her, where united were
The Roses both of York and Lancaster.
If Vertues self, or Miracles could have done,
She had liv'd still; for she her self was One.
Vertue it self's Immortal; But alass
The Vertuous in the Mortall croud must pass.
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Her Husbands Riches wee'll not think upon,
(His Mines in present, or Reversion)
As being Richer in his Lovely Bride,
Yet Death her snatch't from his unwilling side:
Nor yet those Treasures of a Nobler Mine,
Which make him in the van of Learning shine:
His Parts could not (Immortall though they be)
Prolong his better Part's Mortality.
But why presume I to eclipse her Rayes
Wronging Perfection with Imperfect Praise?
Praises that fall below their subjects worth,
Deface, and darken, what they should set forth.
To speak her Praise, her Husbands Tongues, and those
Which her Incomparable Mother knowes,
(Which are the Moderne and the Learned too)
Are each of them too weak, and all too few:
Onely this comfort we have by the By;
More Sweetness cannot live, and Goodness Dye:
Nor shall the World again, in any one
Lament the Loss of more Perfection.
She and her Spouse, in Life, chang'd mutual flames,
Death should have chang'd her & her Mothers names:
For had her Name been Lucy, 't had been right,
Lucy the shortest Day, and longest Night.
See what terrestriall Constellations are!
A Blazing now, and then a Falling starr!
But Stars that set must rise again: for she
Sleepes but to wake during Eternity.
Subscripsit Jo. Joynes.
Fecit Tristitia Versum.