A sermon preached at Walden in Essex, May 29th.: At the interring of the corps of the right Honorable Susanna, Countesse of Suffolke. Being a modest and short narration of some remarable passages in the holy life and death of that memorable lady. Who dyed May 19th. 1649. / By Edw: Rainbowe. D.D.
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- A sermon preached at Walden in Essex, May 29th.: At the interring of the corps of the right Honorable Susanna, Countesse of Suffolke. Being a modest and short narration of some remarable passages in the holy life and death of that memorable lady. Who dyed May 19th. 1649. / By Edw: Rainbowe. D.D.
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- Rainbowe, Edward, 1608-1684.
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- London :: Printed W. Wilson, for Gabriel Bedell, M. M[eighen] and T. C[ollins] and are to be sold at their shop at the Middle Temple-Gate,
- 1649.
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- Funeral sermons
- Sermons, English
- Suffolk, Susanna Howard, -- Countess of, -- d. 1649 -- Death and burial
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"A sermon preached at Walden in Essex, May 29th.: At the interring of the corps of the right Honorable Susanna, Countesse of Suffolke. Being a modest and short narration of some remarable passages in the holy life and death of that memorable lady. Who dyed May 19th. 1649. / By Edw: Rainbowe. D.D." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A91801.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 1, 2024.
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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE JAMES Earle of SƲFFOLKE.
My Lord,
THat I have not paid a more speedy obedi∣ence to your Lodships Commands, and the admonitions of some of my worthiest friends, in making publick these following conceptions, proceeded from no other rea∣son than that, in my more deliberate review, I thought it some injury to her high deserts to have expressed so little, where with truth and evidence so much might have been asserted. It had been a taske not lesse pleasing to my self, and more satisfactory to all that knew her, to have pend an History rather than a Sermon: and if a happier pen had undertaken this subject, the story of her life might prove a most perswasive Orator for goodnesse and piety, the highest effects of Sermons. But considering the place where I was
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no make this discourse, I could not otherwise contrive, but that what could be spoken in the praise of so incomperable a Lady, must hold small proportion with what must be sup∣prest in silence, and because I would be true to the Title, I have made no addition, nor considerable alteration.
That the Image of her Virtues may finde a place in your Lordships memory, and may live in your daily imitation, and of all who shall see some glimpses of it in this unartifi∣ciall but faithfull representation, to the glory of him whose Image she bore, is the fervent prayer of
Your Lordships most humbly devoted servant EDW: RAINDOWE.
Audley-End. Sept. 11. 1649.