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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64379	A sermon preached at the funeral of Her late Majesty Queen Mary of ever blessed memory in the abbey-church in Westminster upon March 5, 1694/5 by His Grace Thomas Lord Archibishop of Canterbury.	Tenison, Thomas, 1636-1715.	1695 (1695)	Wing T722; ESTC R6633	10,042	16

A SERMON Preached at the FUNERAL of Her Late MAJESTY QUEEN MARY Of Ever Blessed Memory IN THE ABBEY CHURCH in WESTMINSTER Upon March 5 1695. By his Grace THOMAS Lord Archbishop of CANTERBVRY Edinburgh Re-printed by the Heirs and Successors of Andrew Anderson Printer to His most Excellent Majesty 1695. Die Jovis 7. Martii 1695. It is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled that his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Centerbury be and he is hereby desired to Print and Publish his Sermon Preached in the Abbey-Church in Westminster at the Funeral of Her late Majesty Queen MARY of Blessed Memory Matth. Johnson Cler Parliamentor ECCLES vii 14. Former Part. In the Day of the Prosperity be joyful but in the Day of Adversity consider God also hath set one over against the other PRosperity which carries the Affections outward and discovers them in Joy is by no means a fit Subject to to entertain you with in the House of Mourning But Adversity which causeth the Mind to retire and to consider is without peradventure an Argument in Season And a Fourfold Consideration in this day of our Adversity seems very proper I. The Greatness of our Loss II. The Principal Cause of it III. The Degrees of Good which God hath temper'd with this sore Evil for the rendring of it the more supportable He hath set the one over against the other IV. The Duty which upon this whole matter is required of us to the end that our Affliction having had its due Effect we who at present sow in Tears may hereafter reap in Joy 1. The first Consideration is the Greatness of our Loss This will appear 1. From the Excellency of the Person whom God hath taken from us 2. From some Circumstances of Time by which that loss is further enhaunced 1. The Greatness of our Loss appears from the Exellency of that Person whom the Goodness and justice of God towards Her Goodness but Justice towards us has taken away This is a very copious Subject and the difficulty consists not in finding out matter but in keeping a measure in speaking To that therefore I shall have especial regard Now the Excellency of the Person may be represented to you 1. In Her intellectual Accomplishments 2. In Her Graces and Vertues 1. This incomparable Princess was endow'd with more than common Accomplishments of Mind whether we have respect either to Her Knowledge or Her Wisdom Towards Her Knowledge Nature hath done a great deal Education and Conversation of the best kind more still and most of all the Grace of God Her Vnderstanding was clear and steddy and there was a great Compass and Comprehension in it It reach'd both to the greater Things of Religion and the lesser of Oeconomy It was perpetually fed and improved by Reading by hearing Books read by Discoursing by Meditation Her Books were many and well chosen much delighted in and therefore well studied and well remembred For Her Majesties Memory was Great and it was properly exercised by Books of History One I may name which She much valued and often took into Her hands Father Paul 's Celebrated History of the Couneil of Trent But the Holy Scriptures were the Oracles which she chiefly consulted In them if any thing occurred which was not at first so well understood it was by Her noted down as a Subject for after-thoughts and to be cleared by them or by some Comment or some Person of especial Ability Neither was Her Wisdom and Prudence inferior to Her Knowledge and of this there are many Instances out of which I shall select a few 1. Her Wisdom shew'd it self in the governing of Her Knowledge She troubled not Her self or others with such curious Questions which the Prudent neither ask nor think themselves concern'd to answer Neither was She wrought up to any Biggotory in unnecessary Opinions She was most Conversant in Books of Practical Divinity of which some of the latest used by Her were certain Sermons and some Discourses concerning Happiness Death and Iudgment She knew good things in order to the doing of them It is true She read many Volumnes of Controversies betwixt the Reformed and those of the Church of Rome but it was for the sake of necessary Defence not of vexatious Dispute 2. Her Wisdom was made known by the wonderful Art she had attain'd to for the governing of Time upon which all managements do much depend Her hours were so adjusted to the several Affairs of Her own and others that notwithstanding the multiplicity of them She found a season for every thing and frequently a Time for dispatching many things together Dressing did not wholly prevent Reading or Hearing or Working and nothing prevented the Service of that God who gives all time and expects an Account of it It was well understood by this wise Princess that in the Current of time Affairs meet at last with a stop if by dispatch some of them are not taken out of the way but all are suffered to float down together 3. Her Wisdom shin'd very gloriously in Her Administration of Publick Affairs for which She has received deservedly the Publick Thanks having conducted them with Wisdom and Temper and unwearied Application Application which was made a Jest in a late Age and the want of which is a Lamentation in this It was an Obeservation of some who were in circumstances to make it that when secret Difficulties occur'd this wise Princess had a due sense of them and together with that such a Command of her Passions that there appeared few signs of Trouble none of Dejectedness in her Countenance least either the Friends of the Government should be disheartned or its Enemies encourag'd Add to all this that the Wisdom of this Princess was that true Wisdom which chuseth the best things in the first place the Honour of God before the Pomp of Life the Salvation of the Soul before the gaining of the World This Wisdom is justified by the genuine Effects of it of which the Second part of Her Character consists Her Graces and Virtues which may be laid before you under these Three great Branches of the Christian Life Piety Charity and Humility 1. She was a Princess Eminent for Piety Piety which is necessary for all but still more necessary in Her Station it being the readiest way for those who are to govern the People to be first themselves obedient to God Her Private Devotions were extraordinary And tho She shut out the World yet in her high Circumstances Her very Retirements could not pass wholly unobserv'd And it has at last been understood that Her Exercises of Devotion which were known were not the half of those which were then not known If all were as diligent in examining and noting down the Condition of their Souls and comparing the former and the present Estate of them Heaven would in some measure be upon Earth In Publick how pious an Observer of the Lords day was this Religious Princess