Saint Stevens last will and testament A funeral sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…Saint Stevens last will and testament A funerall sermon on Acts 7. ver. 59.…

It is true indeed that Solomons Mother saith, that ^fBeauty alone is but vain, and favour is oft ^gfull of deceit. Yea, it is true that another saith, that ^hBeauty without Virtue is no grace, but a disgrace to those that so have it; a means, as ⁱto draw more eyes after them, so ^kto expose them to the more disgrace & reproach, while their defects, by occasion thereof, are more eyed. But it is no less true on the other side, that the Poet hath, and is generally acknowledged; that, ^lwhere Virtue and Beauty do concur, they give much lustre mutually either to other. And so was it with her; her inside was suitable to her outside, or superior rather unto it: God had dealt largely and liberally with her, in regard of either, and in that part especially, that is the more to be regarded. He had endowed her with a greater measure then ordinary, in that Sex especially, of wisdom, of discretion, of understanding, of knowledge how to behave her self so, as her behaviour should be, not inoffensive only, but very grateful and acceptable to those, that had either interest in her, or occasion to converse with her.

It is true indeed that Solomons Mother saith, that ^fBeautie alone is but vaine, and favour is oft ^gfull of deceit. Yea, it is true that another saith, that ^hBeautie without Vertue is no grace, but a disgrace to those that so have it; a meanes, as ⁱto draw more eyes after them, so