FOOTNOTES:
[320] Orat. 28. de Funere Patris. Tom. 2.
[321] Act. 7. 53, 56, 59.
[322] Luke 23. 46.
[323] Reuel. 14. 13.
[324] Phil. 1. 23.
[325] Paulin. in D. Ambroſ Vita.
[326] Eſai. 11. 2.
[327] Zach. 12. 10.
Concluſion. Sed quid ego te morer Frater? quid expectem? vt noſtra tecum cōmoriatur et quaſi conſepeliatur oratio? S. Ambr. de Obitu fratris. Tom. 3.
But why ſhould I detaine thee (Honourable Lady) any longer? Or what doe you (Beloued) expect more? That our ſpeech alſo ſhould Die together with Hers, and (as it were) be Buried together with Her. O my Bleſſed Brethren, ſuffer neither this Godly Lady, nor Gods word to depart ſo diſhonourably from you.
I.
Imitation of Her Vertues.
Suffer not Her ſo to depart from you; but let her euer liue in your breaſts by Eſteeming Her very highly in loue for Her workes ſake, by Commemorating Gods Graces in Her; but aboue all by Imitating her Faith and Vertues[331]. Then you ſhall not need to grieue very much for Her Abſence from you; becauſe ſhe is with Chriſt, which is beſt of all[332]; becauſe ſhe is Taken away, not from you; but from the euill to come, Eſai. 57. 1. From you ſhee is not Taken, but from ſeeing the plagues and miſeries of this wretched world, yea from ſeeing the future Deaths of you, Her Deareſt friends[333], for whom ſhe would haue wept full bitterly; but you haue greater Cauſe, if you will heare S. Ambroſe and S. Ierome comforting themſelues in a like caſe, to Reioyce[334] and to giue God thankes[335], that you Haue had Her, nay that you Haue Her, if ſo be you follow Her good example, and repreſent her to the life by your Godly Life.
