Excerpt from Memoirs of Eminently Pious Women of the British Empire, Vol. 2 of 3 The Countess of Carbery, who died in the prime of life in the year 1650, was the lady of Richard, Earl of Carbery. The following character is extracted from a sermon preached at her funeral by the pious, learned, and eloquent Dr. Jeremy Taylor, and published in a collection of his discourses in folio: "I have now done with my text, but am yet to make you another sermon. I have told you the necessity and the state of death; it may be too largely for such a sad story; I shall, therefore, now, with a better compendium, teach you how to live, by telling you a plain narrative of a life, which if you imitate and write after the copy, it will make, that death shall not be an evil, but a thing to be desired, and to be reckoned amongst the purchases and advantages of your fortune. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.